Smaller than a bread box — wait a sec, joe, your wires are crossed.
Again.
The Egyptian tortoise is smaller than a raspberry at birth; fully grown, it will measure between 3 and 5 inches long.
Critically endangered in the wild, its only hope for survival from extinction is continued successful breeding of the species in zoos.
Its native habitat is the Mediterranean coastal deserts of Egypt, Eastern Libya, and the western Negev Desert in Israel.
Its numbers have rapidly declined since the 1960s because of the exotic pet trade and destruction of its habitat through development.
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