Darwin’s tortoise dead at 176

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

I regret to say that Darwin’s tortoise is dead at 176:

Charles Darwin’s tortoise, Harriet, has died at the Australia Zoo near Brisbane. Darwin brought Harriet (then called Harry: Darwin was quite a naturalist, but an undistinguished tortoise-sexer as these things go) from the Galapagos Islands in 1835.

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