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4 New Tortoises Make Their Debut at the Philadelphia Zoo Next Week
The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these ...
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'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old
A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...
An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100
Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since ...
Mommy, a 100-year-old tortoise, becomes the oldest first-time mother of her species
The hatchlings are the offspring of Mommy and Abrazzo, two Western Santa Cruz tortoises and the zoo's two oldest residents, each estimated to be around 100 years old.
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Tiny white tortoise baby is the ‘first of its kind'
Experts also believe that warmer temperatures caused by climate change could be skewing the gender ratio among tortoise hatchlings, which could impact future reproduction in the wild. (If more ...
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California has officially listed the desert tortoise as endangered. Will it be enough to save them?
For the tortoise species to remain viable — an especially difficult feat, given their slow reproduction rates and long lifespans — an average of 3.9 adults must inhabit every square kilometer ...