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alaskanime.bsky.social • 85 days ago

This tortoise was alive before color photography

This tortoise was alive before the invention of the airplane

This tortoise was alive before the invention of radio

Reposted from Paul F. Tompkins

HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Observed) TO MY MAN JONATHAN THE TORTOISE BELIEVED TO BE 192 TODAY #ANTSAT

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templinjay.bsky.social•85 days ago

This tortoise has outlived Brian Thompson and Henry Kissinger both.

hellbendermuseum.bsky.social•84 days ago

When I was a kid I saw a living giant tortoise which was originally collected by CHARLES DARWIN. Her name was Harriet and she passed in 2006

alaskanime.bsky.social•84 days ago

That is amazing! She must have been a grand old lady.

queenofattolia.bsky.social•85 days ago

He was born before the US Civil War, and all the wars which came after it.

alaskanime.bsky.social•85 days ago

Jonathan the Tortoise has lasted longer than the Confederacy

queenofattolia.bsky.social•85 days ago

Not in some people's minds. Those who still believe in it are tenacious little buggers. But so is Jonathan. GO JONATHAN.

banditraptor.bsky.social•85 days ago

This guy is older than bicycles and postage stamps and the telegraph, let alone radio.

alaskanime.bsky.social•85 days ago

Older than POSTAGE STAMPS! The mind boggles! 🤯

radlein.bsky.social•85 days ago

This tortoise is old enough to remember when the GOP was on the RIGHT side of history

kakapojay.bsky.social•85 days ago

He's also bisexual and has had two long-term mates - Emma and Frederik!

thysannia.bsky.social•85 days ago

An icon in every sense of the word

ncogneato.bsky.social•85 days ago

Are we sure the keepers don't sneak a new tortoise in every so often, like that goldfish you had as a kid that lived for years and sometimes changed its color slightly?

alaskanime.bsky.social•85 days ago

He looks like the spawn of Yoda and a large snail, I'd buy him being almost 200 years old lol

creaturecase.bsky.social•85 days ago

He and Mitch McConnell

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