# TORTOISES with Amanda Hipps

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Podcast: [Smologies with Alie Ward](https://stenobird.com/podcast/smologies-with-alie-ward-6911815)
Published: 2026-07-17T07:00:00+00:00
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What's a tortoise? What's a turtle? Why do they live so dang long? What's up with their shells? Wildlife biologist and testudinologist Amanda Hipps studies gopher tortoises and dishes about turtle nomenclature, cliques, roommates, behavior, burrows, evolution and more. If you don't dig tortoises yet, you're about to fall deep into a turtle tunnel in love with them.

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