Sometimes when your species is stuck in a rut you need a hero to step forward. That hero would be Diego, a lusty tortoise with a fondness for the ladies.
There’s an animal out there that just got treated to a bath for the first time in his life – and all because the Royal family are coming to visit.
Watch as Jeffery the Tortoise makes a determined effort to open a sliding door, and gets his own back by leaving it open so the cats can get out.
Imagine having lived through over 100 years of events; having seen some of the most incredible things happen on this earth. Now imagine not being able to tell your story.
Yesterday Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island subspecies of the giant tortoise, died, marking the total extinction of his subspecies. It’s a sad day, as Lonesome George became a symbol of other species on the brink of extinction, and an ambassador for Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
David Attenborough recently visited the Graham Norton show, and shared the stage with the likes of Cameron Diaz. Norton played a clip of a tortoise making sweet love to a shoe (we won’t mention the brand of the shoe, as we wouldn’t want to offend) and asked David Attenborough to narrate that particular miracle of […]