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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

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Turtle Soup

Ingredients

1-1/3 pounds turtle meat
4-1/2 cups water
2 medium onions
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1-1/4 teaspoons salt
5 tablespoons butter, cubed
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons tomato puree
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/3 cup chicken broth
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
1/4 cup lemon juice
Chopped fresh parsley, optional

Directions

In a heavy 4-qt. saucepan, bring turtle meat and water to a boil. Skim off foam. Chop 1 onion and set aside. Quarter the other onion; add to saucepan along with bay leaf, cayenne pepper and salt. Cover and simmer for 2 hours or until the meat is tender. Remove meat with a slotted spoon and cut into 1/2-in. cubes; set aside. Strain broth and set aside. Rinse and dry saucepan; melt butter over medium-high heat. Cook chopped onion until tender. Add flour; cook and stir until bubbly and lightly browned. Whisk in reserved broth; cook and stir until thickened. Reduce heat; stir in tomato puree and Worcestershire sauce. Simmer,
uncovered, for 10 minutes. Add chicken broth, eggs, lemon juice and meat. Simmer for 5 minutes or until heated through. Garnish with parsley if desired. Yield: 4-6 servings.


21 posted on 06/24/2015 3:30:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nickcarraway

I sat on that big guy back in ‘59 at the SD Zoo. Damn...


22 posted on 06/24/2015 3:41:52 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: nickcarraway
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?

That would depend on whether he supported the Union or the Confederacy.

23 posted on 06/24/2015 3:46:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: skinkinthegrass

*SNICKERING*
I Guess the strain was too much..wish “Bitch” McConnell
soon would join him. He’s my very corrupt Senator.


I can think of others in Washington I wish could join them.


24 posted on 06/24/2015 4:28:15 AM PDT by boycott
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To: DoodleDawg

I have the desire to draw the Confederate flag on his back.


25 posted on 06/24/2015 4:41:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway

He smoked 2 pack of unfiltered Camel cigarettes and a fifth of Whiskey a day.


26 posted on 06/24/2015 4:46:26 AM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting that the American spin is that it ‘died’, while some foreign sources indicate that it was put down by the zoo.

Someone isn’t giving us the straight story.


27 posted on 06/24/2015 4:58:02 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Here we go for the foreign treatment:

Galapagos Island tortoise Speed put down by zookeepers at 150

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/galapagos-island-tortoise-speed-put-down-by-zookeepers-at-150-10336346.html


28 posted on 06/24/2015 5:00:03 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: W.

Yes, I remember him from the Children’s Zoo, too.
It was always good to see him. : (


29 posted on 06/24/2015 5:27:24 AM PDT by llmc1
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To: nickcarraway

I remember seeing tortoises in the San Diego Zoo in 1951. No doubt Speed was one of them.


30 posted on 06/24/2015 6:28:10 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Is that true of all creatures in a zoo? Or just a tortoise?


31 posted on 06/24/2015 7:05:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: nickcarraway

His last words were:

“Oh, Forrest, it’s just my time.”


32 posted on 06/24/2015 7:29:39 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ve been saying for years....Zoos should be done away with. Breeding means big bucks....real big bucks. Do it in their native surroundings.


33 posted on 06/24/2015 9:11:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Responsibility2nd

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/14/news/economy/china-panda-trade/index.html


34 posted on 06/24/2015 9:14:48 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Daffynition

Fascinating story.

Question: Jonathan’s species is given as “Testudinipae cytodira”, but it looks like that encompasses most turtles and tortoises.

Is a Seychelles turtle the same as a Galapagos Turtle?


35 posted on 06/24/2015 9:44:37 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan ('Zionists crept into my home and stole my shoe' - Headline)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Sacajaweau

Zoos are immoral.

It’s the place you take your kids to see sad animals.

My wife roped me into getting a Zoo Pass, and every time we go the injustice is more galling to me.


36 posted on 06/24/2015 10:07:00 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan ('Zionists crept into my home and stole my shoe' - Headline)
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To: T-Bone Texan; Sacajaweau

If it weren’t for zoos, there would NOT be any Galapagos Tortoises or hundreds of other endangered species.

Zoo have served to protect these animals as they have educated and informed millions of the dangers they face.


37 posted on 06/24/2015 10:21:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: RedHeeler

Shelby: Turtle Whisperer
http://www.history.com/shows/ax-men/videos/shelby-turtle-whisperer


38 posted on 06/24/2015 11:11:48 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: nickcarraway; newgeezer

The unfairness of turtles outliving people is one of the sorrows about life that was on my mind when I got saved.


39 posted on 06/24/2015 11:12:55 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: Sacajaweau
I agree, in principle. But ...

"Speed helped create more than 90 tortoises as a part of a breeding group."

Looking at it from Speed's POV, he had a pretty good life.

40 posted on 06/24/2015 11:22:30 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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