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Tortoises shouldn't be touched, but they also shouldn't be left in a rocky road where a passing car might inadvertently crush it

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7754-tortoise.jpg Close up, I notice that the tortoise is pinkish around his mouth, and it doesn't look like part of his natural complexionThumbnailsI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadClose up, I notice that the tortoise is pinkish around his mouth, and it doesn't look like part of his natural complexionThumbnailsI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadClose up, I notice that the tortoise is pinkish around his mouth, and it doesn't look like part of his natural complexionThumbnailsI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadClose up, I notice that the tortoise is pinkish around his mouth, and it doesn't look like part of his natural complexionThumbnailsI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the roadClose up, I notice that the tortoise is pinkish around his mouth, and it doesn't look like part of his natural complexionThumbnailsI pick up the tortoise and put him down amidst some flowers, encelias perhaps, off the road

I approach the tortoise to remove it from the road and he retracts his head and hisses in self-defense.