A bixi ( tortoise ) | stone tortoise with a stele in memory of Ma-na-jih-chia-na in Nanjing

A bixi ( stone tortoise ) with a stele in honor of Yuan Shikai, which was installed in Anyang's Huanyuan Park soon after his death, was ( partly ) restored in 1993.

Qianlong-era Bixi ( tortoise ) | bixi near Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing

A stele carried by a bixi ( tortoise ) | giant stone tortoise at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum | Hongwu Emperor's Mausoleum

bixi ( tortoise ) | Stone tortoise from the grave of a 12th-century Jurchen leader in today's Ussuriysk

One of the bixi ( tortoise ) | tortoise stelae of Xiao Dan ( 478 — 522 ), a member of the Liang Dynasty | Liang royal family.

Lê Lợi's bixi ( tortoise ) | tortoise-borne memorial stele

One of the two bixi ( tortoise ) | turtle-based steles at Shou Qiu, the legendary birthplace of the Yellow Emperor.

A 12th-century bixi ( tortoise ) | stone tortoise from a Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ) | Jurchen grave now can be seen in Ussuriysk's central park

Year 8 of the Taipingxingguo era ( AD 983 ) ( bixi ( tortoise ) | tortoise pedestal )

The stele in memory of Kangxi Emperor's repairs to the bridge, held by a bixi ( tortoise ) | bixi tortoise, is in the foreground

A bixi ( tortoise ) | stone tortoise with a tablet commemorating the Kangxi Emperor's visit to Nanjing in 1684

In the imperial China, a stone tortoise called bixi was traditionally used as the pedestal for important stele, especially those associated with emperors.

One enters the site through the monumental Great Golden Gates ( Da Jin Men ), and is soon faced by a giant stone tortoise ( bixi ), which resides in the Sifangcheng (" Square city ") pavilion.

File: Baby_tortoise. jpg | Baby tortoise, less than a day old

File: aldabra. giant. tortoise. arp. jpg | Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea

File: Leopards tortoise. jpg | 22-year old Leopard Tortoise

File: TurtleRideIfrog. jpg | Boy rides a tortoise at a zoo

Bixi ( tortoise ) | Stone Turtle at Karakorum.

Image: Golden Tortoise Beetle-Charidotella sexpunctata. jpg | Hispinae: golden tortoise beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata

The Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed in 456 or 455 BC by a tortoise dropped by an eagle who mistook his bald head for a stone – if this incident did occur, the Lammergeier is a likely candidate for the " eagle ".

In the Stalinist tradition, the pre – 1860 Chinese presence in lands Tsarist Russia acquired with, the Treaty of Aigun and the Convention of Peking, became a politically incorrect subject in the Soviet press, “ inconvenient ” museum exhibits were removed from public view, and the Jurchen-script text about the Jin Dynasty stele, supported by a stone tortoise in the Khabarovsk Museum, was covered with cement.

Inside it, there is a 50-ton tortoise shaped dragon-beast carrying a stone tablet.

A 12th century Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ) | Jurchen stone tortoise in today's Ussuriysk

The Ming Dynasty laws, instituted in the 14th century by its founder the Hongwu Emperor, listed a number of stele types available as status symbols to various ranks of the nobility and officialdom: the top noblemen and mandarins were eligible for stelae installed on top of a stone tortoise and crowned with hornless dragons, while the lower-level officials had to be satisfied with steles with plain rounded tops, standing on simple rectangular pedestals.

A wooden bridge leads to an island representing a crane, and a stone bridge connects this island to another representing a tortoise.

The tortoise supports a splendid carved stone stele, crowned by intertwining hornless dragons.

The one in the middle, also mounted on a stone tortoise, is inscribed with 4 Chinese characters, " 治隆唐宋 ", which were written by the Qing Dynasty's Kangxi Emperor on his third inspection tour of the South in 1699.

In 1999, another, unfinished, stone tortoise and an unfinished stele lying on the ground were discovered in a ravine just over 100 m to the southeast from the Sifangcheng Pavilion, and even closer to Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's former villa ( known as Meiling Gong ).

Jonathan, claimed to be the world ’ s oldest tortoise, is thought to have arrived on the island in 1882.

Timothy ( – 3 April 2004 ) was a Mediterranean Spur-thighed tortoise who was thought to be approximately 165 years old at the time of her death.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

The mandolins have a tortoise shell pickguard below the soundhole under the strings.

It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther ; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead.

About 75 % of Asia's 90 tortoise and freshwater turtle species are estimated to have become threatened.

Stories of hippos like Huberta who became a celebrity in South Africa in the 1930s for trekking across the country ; or the tale of Owen and Mzee, a hippo and tortoise who developed an intimate bond ; have amused people who have bought hippo books, merchandise, and many a stuffed hippo toy.

The number of concentric rings on the carapace, much like the cross-section of a tree, can sometimes give a clue to how old the animal is, but, since the growth of a tortoise depends highly on the accessibility of food and water, a tortoise that has access to plenty of forage ( or is regularly fed by its owner ) with no seasonal variation will have no noticeable rings.

Some animals, such as the tortoise, have both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton.

Outside, but still considered part of the reptile house, is a giant tortoise and Rhinoceros iguana enclosure where the animals have access to a heated indoor house and an outdoor enclosure.

Maximum life span is usually longer for species that are larger or have effective defenses against predation, such as bird flight, tortoise shells, porcupine quills, or large primate brains.

Some Hindu folk-myths have a snake ( Adisesha ) circling the tortoise Kurma that supports the eight elephants which support the world on their backs.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

He instead suggests that Achilles must inevitably come up to the point where the tortoise has started from, but by the time he has accomplished this, the tortoise will already have moved on to another point.

This continues, and every time Achilles reaches the mark where the tortoise was, the tortoise will create a new point that Achilles will have to catch up with ; while it begins with 0. 9 metres, it becomes an additional 0. 09 metres, then 0. 009 metres, and so on, infinitely.

There are also some creatures that have only been mentioned once or twice ( e. g., wolf, beaver, turtle, whale, wolverine, sable, tortoise, golden-furred hamster, flying mice ( a term given to bats ), monitor lizards, and in the first book horses and cows ).

He loves soup ( much to his sister's chagrin ), has a pathological dependence on his pacifier, and he and Mafalda have a pet tortoise called Burocracia ( Bureaucracy ).