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

A couple of a 100 -year -old giant turtle has become about 100 years of parents in the Philadelphia Zoo.

The zoo said this week that he was “overwhelmed” when four halls from Abrazzo and Mommy, a couple from Santa Cruz Galapagos.

She said that the births were the “first” in the history of the zoo, which is more than 150 years old, and the mother who arrived in 1932-the oldest mother is known for the first time in its type.

The western turtle, Santa Cruz Galapagos, is critically at risk in the wild, and there is less than 50 in American zoos.

The first eggs Abrazzo and Mommy hatch on February 27, and others soon followed. The animal welfare team is watching in the other zoo who may still hatch in the coming weeks.

The four bubbles weigh between 70 and 80 grams.

The zoo said that they are being left behind the scenes, inside the reptiles of the Philadelphia Zoo and the Ambitious House, and “eating and growing appropriately”.

It plans for the first time in the Quartet on Wednesday, April 23, and it is “the 93rd anniversary of the mother’s arrival to the zoo.”

Hatchings is part of the association of the zoos proliferation program alone, which aims to keep genetic species and diversity.

“This is an important landmark in the history of the Philadelphia Zoo, and we cannot be more enthusiastic to share this news with our city, the region and the world,” said the President and CEO of the Zoo Company, Joy El Mogherman.

“The mother arrived in the zoo in 1932, which means that anyone who has visited the zoo since the past 92 years has seen it,” said Ms. Mugharman.

Abrazzo is a newer arrival, after moving to Philadelphia in 2020 after she previously lived in the RiverBanks Zoo and the Garden in South Carolina.

She added: “Philadelphia’s animal park’s vision is that these matches will be part of a group of flourishing turtle from Galapagos on our healthy planet 100 years from now.”