Pet tortoise grows up to 40kg in S China
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Two kids frolick with a giant tortoise weighing over 20 kg, at Jiaji Township, Qionghai City, south China's Hainan Province, May 21, 2009. A local citizen surnamed Huang purchased the then a quarter-kg-weight African spurred tortoise, or the Geochelone sulcata in Latin, and brought it back to breed as a pet some 4 years ago. Now it has grown up to over 40 kg. [Meng Zhongde/Xinhua] |
![Two kids frolick with a giant tortoise weighing over 20 kg, at Jiaji Township, Qionghai City, south China's Hainan Province, May 21, 2009. A local citizen surnamed Huang purchased the then a quarter-kg-weight African spurred tortoise, or the Geochelone sulcata in Latin, and brought it back to breed as a pet some 4 years ago. Now it has grown up to over 40 kg. [Meng Zhongde/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090522/000bcdb95f1d0b805a7328.jpg "Two kids frolick with a giant tortoise weighing over 20 kg, at Jiaji Township, Qionghai City, south China's Hainan Province, May 21, 2009. A local citizen surnamed Huang purchased the then a quarter-kg-weight African spurred tortoise, or the Geochelone sulcata in Latin, and brought it back to breed as a pet some 4 years ago. Now it has grown up to over 40 kg. [Meng Zhongde/Xinhua]")
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