A 255-year-old giant tortoise named Adwaitya died at the Calcutta Zoo on Wednesday. The animal had been brought to India from the Seychelles Islands in the mid-18th century as a gift to the British colonial ruler Robert Clive.
What to do now? Make one big, nasty bowl of turtle soup. Yum.
Friday, March 24, 2006
255-Year-Old Tortoise ... Dead
Posted by Steve-O at 8:02 AM
Labels: obituaries, old turtle
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