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Standing knee-deep in an overload, the researchers plucked three dozen tortoises one by one from cardboard boxes, decreasing them into the water.
Then they saw as some of Australias most critically endangered reptiles took off into the wetlands, bound for an audacious experiment in environment adjustment.