#tortoise

#tortoise

Londoners are used to sharing their Tube rides with dogs and maybe the occasional cat but passengers on the Victoria Line last week got quite the surprise when a tiny traveller joined their carriage. Video footage taken by one astonished passenger shows a tortoise calmly perched on one of the Priority Seats just after rush hour on Friday, November 7. Cha, who filmed the scene, said she had just arrived at Seven Sisters when she spotted the little creature, reportedly en route to the vet after injuring its tail.

The London Fire Brigade reported that a tortoise inadvertently caused a fire in a flat by knocking over a heat lamp, igniting hay.

The tortoise always gives the impression of preferring to be left alone with his humiliation. It's easy to think of him as self-regulating, but he's both vulnerable and wily.