80-Year-Old Galapagos Tortoise Has 9 Babies at Swiss Zoo

Jack Phillips
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An 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise recently gave birth to nine babies at the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland.

She laid her first eggs last fall, and they were kept in an incubator. Galapagos tortoises don’t usually give birth until they’re about 40 years old.

(Samuel Furrer / Zoo Zurich)
Samuel Furrer / Zoo Zurich
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