A tortoise that went on the run for 16 days after escaping from its pen in Devon has been found near an ice cream parlour.
Shelly, the leopard tortoise, went missing from Shillingford Abbott near Exeter on July 9.
The reptile was found near the Orange Elephant ice cream parlour, near Kennford, over two weeks later.
The tortoise's owner, Nick Phillips, said she had been "spotted by the farmer, who thought she was a big rock".
"Luckily, he realised rocks don't usually move and gave us a call," he added.
The search saw Phillips' family look in verges, undergrowth and local woods with thermal imaging used to try and spot her.
However, Phillips said Shelley's appetite had reduced after returning home.
He explained: "We tried runner beans, cabbage, cucumber, the full monty."
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|The Orange Elephant ice cream parlour
"She wasn't interested. I've no idea what she's been eating, but clearly it wasn't salad," Phillips added.
Phillips' daughter Becky said the 40lb tortoise "can travel nearly a mile a day".
"It seems people don't know what to do when they see a tortoise on the loose," she said.
"Because she was just left there."
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Becky also said that she believed the tortoise "escaped by clawing under the chicken wire of her pen".
It comes after fellow tortoise Ginger was spotted by a horse rider in Stanton, Gloucestershire nearly a year after going missing.
Sarah-Jane Muirie, from Worcesershire, had almost given up on the tortoise.
"(It's) a good mile from home," Muirie said.
"So she must have been hibernating in the area, and luckily someone remembered the poster and got in touch."
Similar to Shelley, the horse rider thought the tortoise was a rock.
However, they noticed the tortoise's head poking out.