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	Timothy--a famous and not to be forgotten tortoise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The tortoise was released in the garden at an unknown age in 1633 by Laud and two different labels on the existing shell place its death at 1730 (97 years) and 1753 (120 years).
		Timothy was clearly a key character in the Selborne journals (he is indexed more often than any other entry), and a century and a half later Sylvia Warner extracted all mention of him from what White had written about the tortoise, and compiled a book just about Timothy (1946.
		Timothy is presented, not as an object through which man can allegorically reexamine his own traits, but as the tortoise that he was.
	www.tortoisereserve.org /Sundry/Timothy_Body2.html (2241 words)

	Timothy (tortoise) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Timothy (estimated 1844 – April 3/April 4, 2004) was a Mediterranean spur thighed tortoise who was thought to be approximately 160 years old at the time of her death.
		Timothy was found aboard a Portuguese privateer in 1854 by Captain John Courtenay Everard, of the Royal Navy.
		The tortoise served as a mascot on a series of Navy vessels until 1892 (she was ship's mascot of HMS Queen during the first bombardment of Sebastopol in the Crimean War, then moved to Princess Charlotte followed by Nankin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy_(tortoise) (249 words)

	CHAPTER 5
		Tortoises must have suitable soils and terrain for constructing a burrow and must have adequate annual and perennial plants in the spring and/or summer for forage.
		Tortoises are measured with calipers, instruments consisting of a pair of movable curved legs fastened together at one end.
		Adult male tortoises have a longer and up-curved gular horn, a concave plastron (a dish-shaped depression on the underside of the shell near the tail), a longer tail, and chin glands or knobs on the chin.
	www.deserttortoise.org /answeringquestions/chapter5.html (2476 words)

	Life at a tortoise's pace
		Timothy, as it turns out was, in fact, female, a detail White somehow missed in all the years in which the two shared an English garden.
		Timothy, who is a native of the beaches of the Mediterranean, watches from his boot-level perspective as his keeper White goes through his daily rounds of recording the local flora and fauna.
		Timothy is witness to commonplace examples of environmental plunder in the 18th century that are harbingers of much greater ruination to come.
	www.suntimes.com /output/books/cst-books-klinkenborg05.html (651 words)

	FIGHTING WILDFIRE IN DESERT TORTOISE HABITAT: CONSIDERATIONS FOR LAND MANAGERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the interest of conserving habitat for tortoises and other desert wildlife it is useful to predict years of high fire incidence and prepare resource advisors and firefighters for the special considerations of suppressing fires in tortoise habitat.
		These teams receive their mandate from the local agency manager, and it is imperative that the importance of the mission and the importance of the tortoise mitigation guidelines be conveyed from the agency manager to the IC, who is responsible for relaying that information and emphasizing its importance to his subordinates.
		Firefighters should note location and condition of desert tortoises and carcasses, but should not attempt to touch or move unless the animal is in immediate danger from fire or is on a road that is receiving traffic.
	www.blm.gov /az/dt/TORTFIRE.HTML (2657 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Devon \| Timmy the tortoise dies aged 160
		Timothy, who was first discovered on board a Portuguese vessel in 1854, was thought to be the country's oldest resident.
		Timothy, who weighed 11 pounds (5kg), was found 160 years ago on board a Portuguese privateer by Captain John Courtenay Everard of the Royal Navy, a relative of the 10th Earl of Devon.
		Timothy is to be buried at Powderham Castle
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/devon/3607053.stm (540 words)

	reaktionbooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Tortoise is the first cultural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years.
		Peter Young examines the tortoise in all these guises, as well as a military tactical formation, its exploitation by mariners and others for food, as ornament (in tortoiseshell), as a motif in art, and in space research.
		Timothy Tortoise, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a member of his family for more than 50 years.
	www.reaktionbooks.co.uk /titles/animal-tortoise.html (197 words)

	Tortoise Trust Web - New light on an old tortoise - Gilbert White's Selborne tortoise re-discovered.
		A further set of data on the same tortoises was presented by Loveridge and Williams (1957) where it is recorded that as of September 1st 1955 the tortoises weighed 2.629kg/298mm and 4.252kg/365mm and by F. Moysey (1962).
		Although the bordered tortoise is far from uncommon in Greece, and in other countries on the shores of the Mediterranean basin, I am compelled to refer to authorities for its structure, as I am not aware of the existence in london of a living or preserved specimen of the animal.
		Loveridge, A. and Williams, E.E. (1957) Revision of the African tortoises and turtles of the suborder Cryptodira.
	www.tortoisetrust.org /articles/algeria.html (3547 words)

	Verlyn Klinkenborg Timothy; Or, Notes of An Abject Reptile Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		(Yes, Timothy is a she, as determiend by scientists who examined the shell.) Klinkenborg's novel is as deviously, deceptively simple in its execution as it is clever and complex in its conception.
		Timothy may be abject but she's not in the least bit shy.
		'Timothy' is not exactly a novel, it's not exactly a biography, it’s not exactly a nature tale, and it's not exactly an essay.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2006/klinkenborg-timothy.htm (901 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| Feb/Mar 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His splendid novel, Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile, is also eloquent in its floundering, if we regard it as perfectly natural for a tortoise, out of its native element, to have somewhat halting prose.
		The tortoise notes that age shakes the mild confidence of his inquisitor, whose dependence on knowledge and reason quietly turns to unanswerable question.
		Timothy's constant solitude, his very closeness to the ground, his silence, and his slow, reptilian experience of time allow him to observe that humans are predictable in their ignorance and less complicated than other creatures.
	www.bookforum.com /manning.html (563 words)

	Timothy the tortoise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		WAR HERO TORTOISE DIES...He served in the Crimean war before retiring to a life in the countryside.Now, at the ripe old age of around 160, Britain's likely oldest resident - Timothy the tortoise - has died.
		Timothy's retirement has been a particularly long one, about a century shuffling around the gardens of Powderham Castle in Devon, southwest England.
		Timothy later saw active service in both the East Indies and China, naval historian Captain George Cardew told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
	www.netmemorials.co.uk /timothy_the_tortoise.htm (292 words)

	Red Foot Tortoise care sheet
		Red-footed tortoises have challenging head movements that are a series of lateral jerks, by contrast, yellow-footed tortoises utilize a long sideways sweep in their displays (Auffenberg, 1965).
		There is some controversy among tortoise breeders as to whether or not tortoise eggs should be moved from their original orientation in the nest before artificial incubation.
		Often hatchling tortoises will emerge with some yolk sac still present, cleanse the yolk sac with a mild disinfectant such as betadine and keep the hatchling on moist substrate until the yolk is absorbed (Renquist, 1994).
	www.beardiedragon.com /pages/Care/RF_Care.html (2964 words)

	THIS IS FINDON - Timothy Passes Through Findon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		On the death of his Aunt Rebecca Snooke in 1780, I know that he inherited her tortoise, Timothy, who was a mere 46-years old at the time.
		Timothy had been born in 1734 in the Province of Virginia in the midst of a savanna that was situated between a large tobacco plantation and a creek.
		The unfortunate tortoise was also humiliated and roared at through a megaphone to test his aural reaction and was even forced to take to a tub of water and swim for his life.
	www.findonvillage.com /0467_timothy_passes_through_findon.htm (563 words)

	Bookreporter.com - TIMOTHY; OR, NOTES OF AN ABJECT REPTILE by Verlyn Klinkenborg
		Timothy is a curious name for a female tortoise of Mediterranean descent, laments the title character of this exquisite examination of life.
		But Timothy is and forever shall be her name, as the shell of this much-studied turtle now resides in the Natural History Museum in London.
		Kidnapped in her middle age in the 1760s, Timothy bounced about in steerage in a sailing ship from a sunny shore in Turkey to England's foggy meadows.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0679407286.asp (713 words)

	In 'Timothy,' a tortoise takes on society - The Boston Globe
		Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile By Verlyn Klinkenborg Alfred A. Knopf, 192 pp., $16.95
		In the novel, she tells of her encounters with the naturalist and his fellow ''great soft tottering beasts" of the human race as they cross paths in the garden.
		Thus, the observed becomes the observer, issuing a sometimes bitter, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious critique of the relationship between humanity and nature in the Enlightenment, the summit of Western hubris.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/02/27/in_timothy_a_tortoise_takes_on_society (421 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Timothy the tortoise, thought to be Britain's oldest resident, has died aged about 160.
		After uncertain beginnings Timothy lived off a diet of lettuce and strawberry leaves and is rumoured once to have become drunk on azalea blossom, having to be dosed with castor oil.
		In 1926, it was deemed that Timothy should mate (dynastic considerations being as important to chelonians as to aristocrats).
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/07/ntim07.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/07/ixnewstop.html (590 words)

	The Cold Blooded News - Vol.29, No.2, Feb. 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Timothy, the 162-year-old resident on the Earl of Devon's estate, has been known to mistake red toenails for his favourite strawberries.
		Timothy the tortoise spends most of his days in and around the 14th century castle, but has now started his winter hibernation.
		Timothy, who tips the scales at around 11 pounds, was fostered by the Courtenay family more than 100 years ago, and had previously been with the Royal Navy for at least half a century.
	coloherp.org /cb-news/Vol-29/cbn-0202/Toenails.php (424 words)

	PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Author aims to share tale of tortoise
		Tortoise poaching was encouraged back then because a tortoise languishing in an English garden was a "fashionable" rage during the 18th century.
		Timothy illustrates the interdependency of all creatures in the "rural economy" or ecosystem, dismissing the notion of man's existence as separate and better than the rest of creation.
		The prose borders on the poetic and the language is elevated, since Timothy belongs to the tortoise intelligentsia "in a kingdom of one." The book comes equipped with a glossary defining various species of birds, other creatures, botanical life, the topography of Selborne and objects and vocabulary germane to 18th-century life.
	www.poughkeepsiejournal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/LIFE/602210304 (826 words)

	Amazon.com: Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile: Books: Verlyn Klinkenborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Timothy is a sentient being who has much to teach us from her example (White in his paternalism erroneously concludes Timothy is male).
		Timothy reports and/or comments on more that she would have actually been in a position to observe - most notably the travels of her owner's nephew, Gilbert White's observations re: sex and instinct in the "natural kingdom" (which, naturally, excludes humanity).
		Timothy is a curious name for a female tortoise of Mediterranean descent, laments the title character of this exquisite examination of life.
	www.amazon.com /Timothy-Abject-Reptile-Verlyn-Klinkenborg/dp/0679737537 (1894 words)

	Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg - Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This is the story of a tortoise whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White, author of The Natural History of Selborne.
		Timothy is a luminous act of imagination and perspective.
		Through the mind of a tortoise, boundaries between species dissolve and anthropocentric assumptions shatter, as we are led to examine and explore our cruelty, compassion and curiosity as human beings.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1740 (692 words)

	Reptiles and Amphibians » Tortoises » African Spurred Tortoise Main Page
		The African Spurred Tortoise, also known as the Sulcata Tortoise, is the third largest tortoise in the world, with only the giant Galapagos and Aldabra Tortoises being larger.
		Sulcata Tortoises are native to the southern Sahara Desert, a region that consists of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, and Sudan.
		Sulcata Tortoises feed primarily on grasses and leaves and do best when they are allowed to graze outdoors on a mixture of grasses.
	www.centralpets.com /animals/reptiles/tortoises/tor2589.html (924 words)

	Yoga Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the deep Yoga Nidra, we use eight of the major chakras to contact the various planes of consciousness.
		Due to its resemblance to a tortoise it is known as the tortoise pose.
		If you are feeling incomplete, at this time, write down your passions, reflect on them, and notice that one will stir an overriding desire within you.
	1-678-1.category.xyarticles.com /Yoga (1836 words)

	Verlyn Klinkenborg - An interview with author
		As for Timothy’s intelligence, I decided that the reader has already crossed that threshold the moment he or she accepts that this is a book in which a tortoise is talking.
		Timothy is said to have died in the spring of 1794, but that is all that is said.
		What Timothy hints at several times in this book but never quite says aloud is this—though the tortoise watches Gilbert White closely and judges his behavior, he is by far the most tolerant, the most understanding of humans when it comes to nature and the lives of the animals around him.
	www.bookbrowse.com /author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=853 (1023 words)

	AESOP's FABLES: The Hare and the Tortoise
		Timothy slowly turned his head to look Harriet straight in the eye, “I am too slow or so you say.
		Timothy made his way down the path along the river, across the meadow and right past the snoozing Harriet.
		Timothy picked his last foot up across the line an instant before she made it there.
	www.dltk-teach.com /fables/tortoise/modern.htm (541 words)

	Talk:Deaths in 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I see Harriet the tortoise is listed here.
		I added Harriet (rather poorly formatted as I was in a rush I admit!) because as far as I can tell, it's a very significant death indeed, and the title is 'Deaths in 2006', with no reference to 'Human Death'.
		Timothy (6 April 2004), Peipei, worlds' oldest panda (13 August 2004), Keiko (12 December 2003), etc. -- Arwel (talk) 14:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Deaths_in_2006 (1728 words)

	CHAPTER 7-4
		TORTOISE GROUP, a Las Vegas-based organization, emphasizes responsible care of legally-held pet tortoises and protection of wild desert tortoises.
		Tortoise Group volunteers provide adoption services for unwanted or escaped captive tortoises and visit homes of families who have pet tortoises and want to improve their living conditions.
		Tortoise Group members have used it since the early 1990 and it produces healthy, well-formed tortoises (no pyramidal shells).
	www.deserttortoise.org /answeringquestions/chapter7-4.html (633 words)

	McGettigan: Reflections in an Unblinking Eye
		Debra acknowledged that while she intended for her documentary to capture the 'natural' events on the Tortoise trip, she was also aware that she and her crew were going to comprise an unusual intrusion.
		The Green Tortoise and its passengers appeared out of place in the dense, urban environment: in the glowing haze at the end of a hot summer day a disorganized crowd of people - with camera operators in their midst - lingered on the sidewalk next to a travel-weary, green bus.
		However, the people from the eastbound Tortoise witnessed the fireside performance merely as the 'artificial' conduct of people who were doing whatever they could to get their faces on camera.
	www.socresonline.org.uk /3/1/7.html (7985 words)

	Chris Watson, Bookends: Tale of a tortoise - - - March 26, 2006
		Imagine the poor tortoise snatched from the warm shores of the Mediterranean, expected to adjust to the cold, damp life in England.
		Yes, Timothy was a female and the irony of her living out her long tortoise life with the most famous naturalist of the day lies at the heart of this book.
		Although he may have written about his tortoise Timothy, White was more interested in birds, was fascinated by avian migration and was, in fact, the first person to distinguish the willow wren as three separate species.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2006/March/26/style/stories/06style.htm (1001 words)

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