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Many things like humans, some animals lead to parenting late than usual. In the Philadelphia Zoo, a pair became parents as the Western Santa Cruz turtles approached the century.
This month, Philadelphia Zoopark declared Men’s turtle was born in Abrazzo four hatchlin’s coming and a woman’s mother called a woman’s mother. Children are the first to be the first birthday in the 150-year history of the zoo, the oldest documentary of his species to be a mother. More hatches can appear in the coming weeks.
Galapagos tortoises are the largest turtles in Ecuador, called the islands, are the world’s largest turtles and may live for more than 170 years. Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Turtles are one of the 13 lives.
Turtles, starting in the 19th century, were subjected to a steep population, approaching hunting and invasive species. Protection efforts have increased their numbers as delayed, but still there About 20,000 total Wild today. Western Santa Cruz turtles, especially criticizing the arrival of these hatches.
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It was a long journey to get to the mother to reach the maternity. For more than 90 years, Philadelphia lives in the zoo. As part of the Survival Plan within the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2020, Zoopark agreed to adopt Abrazzo from the Zoo and the Garden of the Southern Tea coast. The blind history was working in pairs and until 2023, my mother began to put egg clutches.
Unfortunately, the first three clutches could not result in live eggs. However, the fourth clutch of my mother in November 2024 was finally successful. A Galapagos tortoise is determined by the temperature of incubated holes such as sexual, eggs. The mother laid 16 eggs and the zoo team buried them at a temperature that would result in 8 male and female hatches each. All four hatches have been done so far are women.
“This is a monumental achievement for our animal care group, which provides the necessary conditions to incubate the anomymous eggs and eggs and successfully put the hatch,” said Lauren Augustine, the director of the hole in the zoo statement. “This successful result has not been represented for years to learn animal behavior and take high levels of care, the genes of this generation, which are extremely important to protect this generation.”
These hatches have been the first to be first done in the Aza-accredited zoo since 2019 and according to the Philadelphian zoo, only 44 individual Western Santa Cruz have a giant turtle in all zoos. Thus, the hatches are very important for continuous protection of these rare subspecies. Fortunately, my mother’s contribution to the gene pool has not yet ended. The first tortoise is shot on February 27 and the team is followed by additional eggs that can take a hatch in the next few weeks.
The Philadelphia Zoopark plans to open Mommy’s hatches on April 23, 93rd anniversary of the arrival of his zoo. In addition, the latest generation of long-lived reptiles also plan to name the public.
