A giant tortoise found ambling down a street in suburban Los Angeles has been reunited with its owners.

A family claimed the reptile, named Clark a day after it was spotted strolling along the street, a spokesman for the Alhambra police department said. It took two officers to lift the creature into a patrol car so they could turn it over to animal control authorities.

The department posted photos of Clark on its Facebook page in the hope of finding the owner and cracked a tortoise and hare joke about officers capturing the animal after a brief pursuit.

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