After a female tortoise is fertilized, she undergoes several changes. After mating, the female tortoise will carry eggs for weeks to months, depending on the species. As the female tortoise gets ...
Artificial incubation has led to the first successful hatching of Aldabra Giant Tortoises in the Seychelles, following groundbreaking research that revealed their low hatching success in the wild was ...
Could you imagine having to deal with four babies at around 100 years old? That's the case for a pair of critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises after four baby tortoises recently ...
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How a simple outing became a rare tortoise egg rescue
This video follows a couple whose simple outing becomes a surprising search for rare tortoise eggs. Soft soil and subtle ...
Not a lot of people know this, but the distinction between a tortoise and a turtle only works in one direction. In other words, all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Both types ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the birth of four critically endangered Galapagos ...
A couple of residents at the Philadelphia Zoo are telling the likes of Mick Jagger and Robert DeNiro — two famous older fathers — to take a step back. Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises Mommy and ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mommy, who has been with the zoo since 1932, was paired with Abrazzo, estimated to be 96, who was transferred to Philadelphia in December 2020 from ...
What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...
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