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San Diego Zoo's 150-Year-Old Galapagos Tortoise Dies
NBC San Diego ^
| 6/22
| Samantha Tatro
Posted on 06/23/2015 10:55:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The San Diego Zoo's Galapagos tortoise Speed, estimated to be more than 150 years old, has died.
Speed had been under veterinary care for geriatric conditions including arthritis and was euthanized by zoo staff on Friday.
Veterinarians had worked to treat Speed with medications, hydrotherapy, acupuncture and physical therapy treatments during his later years. The tortoise came to the zoo in the 1930s as a part of an effort to help preserve tortoise species from the Volcan Cerro Azul Island of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.
Speed was known in his younger years as an alpha male who would butt heads with other males in dominance skirmishes. Speed helped create more than 90 tortoises as a part of a breeding group.
Galapagos tortoises were once hunted for food and placed until protection in 1959. They are a critically endangered species. The tortoise lived in the Childrens Zoo for a period of time before being moved to the Galapagos tortoise habitat. Thirteen Galapagos tortoises still remain at the zoo.
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If it didn't die would the media call for it to be put down because it was a hatchling at the time of the Civil War?
To: nickcarraway
Yup, Global Warming. He ate a habanero burrito.
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:16:42 PM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: nickcarraway
That old boy lived a good life.
R.I.P.
To: nickcarraway
RIP Speed. Where’s the soup?
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:20:12 PM PDT
by
RedHeeler
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:27:01 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: nickcarraway
Another one done in by Obamacare.
To: nickcarraway
RIP, fella. You sure saw a lot of stuff.
To: nickcarraway
Speed had been under veterinary care for geriatric conditions including arthritis and was euthanized by zoo staff on Friday. He didn't die. He was murdered.
No doubt the result of ObamaCare's death panels.
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:38:18 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: nickcarraway
He probably couldn’t take anymore of people telling him he looked like Mitch McConnell.
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:41:03 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: boycott
Damn. All this time I've been
trying to figure out what that turncoat bastard resembled. You pegged it.
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posted on
06/23/2015 11:46:44 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: boycott
That’s really insulting to Speed, considering that turtle at least used to be an alpha male. Mitch only does his “alpha male” schtick when going after Conservatives, never the left.
To: boycott
*SNICKERING*
I Guess the strain was too much..wish "Bitch" McConnell
soon would join him. He's my very corrupt Senator.
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posted on
06/24/2015 12:02:28 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
To: RedHeeler
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posted on
06/24/2015 12:12:19 AM PDT
by
thesligoduffyflynns
(Shrimp Egg Foo Young- A tasty dish! gravy on the side please)
To: Daffynition; Slings and Arrows
RIP turtle friend. I’m glad you had a long and happy life.
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posted on
06/24/2015 12:51:51 AM PDT
by
Gefn
(We can't call people without wings angels, so we call them friends- But I call my FRiends angelic)
To: nickcarraway
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06/24/2015 1:24:51 AM PDT
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TChad
(The Hillary for America campaign is now auditioning interns!)
To: Gefn
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06/24/2015 1:31:45 AM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: boycott
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posted on
06/24/2015 1:40:10 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: hitting your target.)
To: Gefn; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/24/2015 1:47:21 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: nickcarraway
Nothing but a stud to them. Lotsa money involved.
To: Daffynition
He belonged in his natural world not in some damn zoo.
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