Happy 175th!

[vilakins]

Happy birthday to Harriet the tortoise, 175 years old today. I just saw her on TV at the Australia Zoo having a special dinner of hibiscus flowers and a birthday cake (for the humans, I suspect). She's a giant land tortoise from the Galapagos Islands who was taken to England by Charles Darwin in 1835. For more than a century of her life she was known as Harry until they found their mistake. :-P She's been in the Australia Zoo for the last 18 years and no matter what I think of Steve Irwin, whose zoo it is, she looks pretty lively (for a tortoise) and healthy. Go, Harriet!

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed they didn't guess she was female because she looked awfully like my late granny - something about the vague smile and the piano-leg stance. Pity she can't talk, with her memories.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can just see your granny now. :-)

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

I don't recall those two ever going swimming!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They didn't. They're rising from the grass on Fosforon.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, o ancient one!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And many more of them!