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A tortoise survival tale: How Tiptoe escaped Southern California's wildfires

Franklin, a marginated tortoise, has spent 15 weeks in a refrigerator at the BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops, in a hibernation-like state known as brumation
The park's animal care manager, Tracy Reynolds, explains that marginated tortoises are more at home in a warm and dry Mediterranean climate and winter in the B.C. Interior is too harsh for Franklin to spend outdoors
Franklin was likely an abandoned pet, rescued from the shores of

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