What Is a Tortoise Shell Made Of
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00:03 A tortoiseshell is made out of keratin.
00:15 It's the same material that our fingernails are made out of.
00:20 It's just a very hard, thickened keratin.
00:24 Their nails are also keratinized.
00:28 You can take a little Dremel and kind of shave that back.
00:31 Sometimes we have to help them wear them down a little bit.
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