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Indd 63 04/06/2007 16:54:56 THE AYE-AYE AND I would bring out the Don Juan in any tortoise worth his salt, but the Ploughshare needs fisticuffs as an aphrodisiac. When the situation is right, however, battle commences and it is a fascinating contest to watch. The two males, rotund as Tweedledum and Tweedledee dressed for battle, approach each other at what, for a tortoise, is a smart trot. The shells clash together and then the Ploughshares’ ampondo comes into use. Each male struggles to get this projection beneath his opponent and overturn him to win a victory in this bloodless duel.
This sort of attitude, which one meets all over the world, is what makes conservation work so very frustrating. We were just making our way out of the village when we were flagged down and another three baby lemurs were produced. They were slightly older than the one we had purchased and I judged them to be at least partially weaned. Again, we could not bear to leave them in conditions that would surely bring about their death, so we bought them and, after another lecture on the law, we left with four baby lemurs in our possession.
A lone male kept with any number of luscious, buxom and voluptuous females (by tortoise standards) just tends to wander round forlornly, ignoring the wiles and manifold attractions of the females, simply because he has no one to fight. indd 63 04/06/2007 16:54:56 THE AYE-AYE AND I would bring out the Don Juan in any tortoise worth his salt, but the Ploughshare needs fisticuffs as an aphrodisiac. When the situation is right, however, battle commences and it is a fascinating contest to watch. The two males, rotund as Tweedledum and Tweedledee dressed for battle, approach each other at what, for a tortoise, is a smart trot.