The large tortoise travelled roughly three miles through the desert before it was found.
A large tortoise that had escaped from an ostrich ranch was saved from a potentially fatal encounter after it was recovered alongside a busy Arizona highway.
A Department of Public Safety trooper, with the help of another motorist, rescued the creature as it was inching its way across Interstate 10. The motorist contacted authorities after it spotted the sulcata tortoise on the interstate in Pinal County, a hot and barren patch of desert between Phoenix and Tuscon.Hand-written on top of the tortoise's shell in fading blank ink was the name "Stitch", which prompted troopers to contact the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch roughly three miles away, according to Arizona's Department of Public Safety.
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