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I will never forget the day I visited Madagascar and got to hear the tale of the King Kong of the Seychelles Islands. You can find out about the Seychelles by reading the Wikipedia article, but the short version is that the Giant Aldabra tortoise once roamed the islands. They have become a protected species and there are now only 11 of them left in the wild. The male and female of this species can be up to 100 years old. They eat mainly grasses, fruits and insects and can live on the sea-shore as long as they get enough fresh food and water.
Anyway the story I heard was that the “female” of this species was killed by poachers in the 1980s and no male was found for years after. Only when a foreign collector, Alan Templeton found one and brought it back to the UK did we find out about it. Although not the most common tortoise, a tortoise of this size and age is incredibly rare and it still has the big, heavy shell of the past. There were no photographs of this tortoise until Alan Templeton saw it on the television in a documentary. I’m sure Alan was very nervous about it at the time, but in a lot of ways the tortoise has become a symbol of the islands and a lot of conservation efforts are focused on its recovery.
We then saw an Aldabra in the flesh at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds office. They were kindly letting us have a look around their museum and even set up a box for our tortoise to live in (which looked like it could have been a cupboard for a domestic pet).
From what I could tell, the tortoise was very bored. The reason I say this was because, when I left it was curled up and looking at the world through its shell. When you see the tortoise you think, “that’s so cute”. Then you go to take ac619d1d87
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