There is more to hibernation than having a long winter’s nap, says Norfolk Wildlife Trust conservation officer .

San Diego Zoo mourns the loss of Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise estimated to be 141 years old. Born in the Galápagos Islands, she became a beloved "Queen of the Zoo" after arriving in the late 1920s.

There is more to hibernation than having a long winter’s nap, says Norfolk Wildlife Trust conservation officer Robert Morgan.

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Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House. By Victor Mather Tortoises are slow. While most of Earth’s creatures zip ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...

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