[NAEP] [Fwd: Darwin's tortoise dead at 176]

[Dawn Wiseman]

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Subject: 	Darwin's tortoise dead at 176
Date: 	Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:02:52 -0800
From: 	M. Pamela Bumsted, Ph.D. <hlthenvt at mochamail.com>
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   <http://www.boingboing.net/#GreatNewsTag_ToggleRead_24071>Darwin's 
tortoise dead at 176 <http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag?m=2109>
*Cory Doctorow*: Charles Darwin's tortoise, Harriet, has died at the 
Australia Zoo near Brisbane. Darwin brought Harriet (then called Harry: 
Darwin was quite a naturalist, but an undistinguished tortoise-sexer as 
these things go) from the Galapagos Islands in 1835. I had the pleasure 
of meeting Harriet last spring. She was awesomely photogenic 
<http://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/harriet>, and her keeper told us 
that she'd roamed free in the Brisbane botanical gardens, giving kids 
tortoise-back rides, until the botanists got tired of her eating the 
rare plants. At 176, she was thought to be the world's oldest living 
tortoise. Link 
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060623/od_afp/australiaanimal_060623102146;_ylt=Ave_b4Ps2r9TGXqs5nZIVIoFO7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--zoo> 
(/Thanks, WY 
<http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2006/06/possibly-studied-tortoise-by-charles.html>!/) 

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