Zoo’s tortoises become first-time parents … aged about 100

At the age of 100, a huge turtle pair of endangered species became the first parent at the Philadelphia Zoo.

The zoo said this week, “I was happy” when four hatching arrived at a pair of Abrazo and a mother in the West Santa Cruise Galapagos Turtle.

Born was “first” in the history of more than 150 years of the zoo, and his mother, who arrived in 1932, was the first mother of her servant.

Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Turtle is deadly endangered in the wild and less than 50 people in the American zoo.

The first of Abrazzo and Mommy’s EGGs was harmed on February 27 and others quickly followed. The zoo’s animal management team is monitoring others who can still hatch in the next few weeks.

The four hatching weighs 70 to 80 grams.

The zoo maintains a behind -the -scenes story inside the Philadelphian zoo and the amphibian house.

We are planning to debut in the quartet on Wednesday, April 23, which is “the 93rd anniversary of my mother arrived at the zoo.”

Hatching is part of a zoo and aquarium breeding program aimed at the survival and genetic diversity of species.

“This is an important milestone in the history of the Philadelphia Zoo, and we couldn’t rejoice more by sharing this news with the city, the region and the world.”

“Mom arrived at the zoo in 1932, and anyone who visited the zoo for the past 92 years would have seen her,” Mogerman said.

Abrazzo is a new arrival that moved to Philadelphia in 2020 while living in Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in South Carolina.

“The vision of the Philadelphia Zoo will be part of the prosperous population of the Galapagos Turtle on our healthy planet 100 years later,” she added.