USA San Diego Zoo mourns loss of 140-year-old tortoise
When Gramma the tortoise was born on Galapagos, the Civil War in the USA was just 15 years old and Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich had just left Bavaria for the New World. The animal came to the San Diego Zoo between 1928 and 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression and died on November 20 at the age of around 140, according to the zoo.
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Due to her advanced age, the tortoise's bone condition had become so poor that the keepers decided to say goodbye to her, according to the park's Instagram page. The "Queen of the Zoo", who was initially photographed in black and white, had become a permanent social media star at the end of her life, it continued. The "historical witness and beloved icon" was probably the zoo's oldest living creature, the institution announced.
