A Bit of Good News

A Bit of Good News

Look forward, experience, remember

Vol. 4, Issue 14

Jade Walker
Apr 09, 2025
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THE GOOD NEWS

Mommy - for the win!

For the first time in its 150-year history, the Philadelphia Zoo has bred and hatched four Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise hatchlings.

The parents — female Mommy and male Abrazzo — were both born in the wild on the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador and are estimated to be about 100 years old. That makes Mom…

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