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Wed, 17 May 2006
Slow but sneaky - 13:26
It appears you can see ways in which some people or animals may make up for
certain shortcomings by increasing there ability in other areas. Sort of like
deaf people who read lips or the claim that blind people are likely to have
better hearing. This story I saw mention of on
ABC yesterday is rather
interesting. A
pet turtle
escaped and it took them 8 months to find it, in which time it had managed
to travel 2.9KM away from the owner's house.
I imagine you would not really expend much effort looking out for a pet
turtle, not expecting it to be able to escape your view even if you don't look
for it more than once every few hours. These sneaky turtles obviously have
other ideas, you turn around or you blink and suddenly your pet turtle is
hiding behind the nearest
available
chicken.
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