Jonathan, the world’s oldest land animal, forced out of closet after his companion found to be gay October 23, 2017 The world’s oldest land animal, a tortoise name Jonathan, may have been in a gay relationship for 26 years with another male tortoise who… Continue Reading
National Love Your Pet Day Feb 20th: A compilation of our favourite tweets February 20, 2017 To celebrate National Love Your Pet Day, in our household, we will let sleeping dogs lie. Here are some of our favourite tweets #NationalLoveYourPetDay… Continue Reading
Tortoise survives being set on fire live on Facebook, Alabama man charged September 13, 2016 By some miracle, Leonardo was expected to recover and is now back in the wild. Leonardo is the tortoise that was set ablaze and live-streamed… Continue Reading
Bobcat captured on camera making an amazing leap May 7, 2015 While busy keeping tabs on a Gopher Tortoise, the Archbold Biological Station in Venus, Florida spotted another critter doing something pretty outstanding. The non-profit research… Continue Reading
How does a tortoise get back on its feet? Here’s the answer! January 9, 2015 The lyrical title of the academic paper is: Geometry of self righting–case of Hermann’s tortoises And here’s what it boils down to, if you’re a… Continue Reading
Eddie, the African turtle found 15,000 km away from home in British Columbia September 9, 2014 Eddie the turtle was far from home when he was found recently in Burnaby, B.C. The African spurred tortoise is native to the southern… Continue Reading
Schildi the bionic tortoise November 12, 2013 Meet Schildi, a celebrity tortoise if we’ve ever seen one. This guy is making headlines from Slate to CNET but the original article appeared… Continue Reading