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November 16, 2005
Happy Birthday Harriet!
Harriet the tortoise celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday--with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in northern Australia. The giant turtle has spent the past 17 years at the Australia Zoo. She is said to have been collected by scientist Charles Darwin in 1835, although some historians have disputed this.
Harriet, formerly known as Harry because scientists believed she was a male for more than a century, is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chelonian, or reptile with a shell of bony plates.
Read story here.
Posted by insideoutmag at November 16, 2005 08:34 AM
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