{"id":25399,"date":"2025-04-05T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:30:26","slug":"an-endangered-galapagos-tortoise-is-a-first-time-mother-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25399","title":{"rendered":"An Endangered Gal\u00e1pagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.<\/p>\n

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Four endangered Western Santa Cruz Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises hatched at the Philadelphia Zoo.<\/span>Philadelphia Zoo<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Congratulations are in order for Mommy, a Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise and a longtime resident of the Philadelphia Zoo, who recently became a first-time mother at the estimated age of 100.<\/p>\n

Mommy, who has lived at the zoo since 1932<\/a>, laid 16 eggs in November. Four of them have since hatched \u2014 the first successful hatching for her species at the zoo, which opened in 1874.<\/p>\n

She had help, of course \u2014 from Abrazzo, a male tortoise who is also estimated to be about a century old.<\/p>\n

Mommy and Abrazzo, both members of the Western Santa Cruz subspecies, are the oldest animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. But Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises can live as long as 200 years, the zoo said, putting them squarely in middle age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The first hatchling emerged on Feb. 27, the zoo announced on Thursday. The others followed within days, with the last one hatching on March 6.<\/p>\n

The hatchlings, none of which have been named, are expected to be on view to the public starting on April 23, the zoo said. They are doing \u201cfantastic,\u201d according to the zoo\u2019s director of herpetology, Lauren Augustine. (Herpetology refers to the study of reptiles and amphibians.)<\/p>\n

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Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.Four endangered Western Santa Cruz Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises hatched at the Philadelphia Zoo.Philadelphia ZooCongratulations are in order for Mommy, a Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise and a longtime resident of the Philadelphia Zoo, who recently became a first-time mother at the estimated age of 100.Mommy, who has lived at the zoo since 1932, laid 16 eggs in November. Four of them have since hatched \u2014 the first successful hatching for her species at the zoo, which opened in 1874.She had help, of course \u2014 from Abrazzo, a male tortoise who is also estimated to be about a century old.Mommy and Abrazzo, both members of the Western Santa Cruz subspecies, are the oldest animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. But Gal\u00e1pagos tortoises can live as long as 200 years, the zoo said, putting them squarely in middle age.The first hatchling emerged on Feb. 27, the zoo announced on Thursday. The others followed within days, with the last one hatching on March 6.The hatchlings, none of which have been named, are expected to be on view to the public starting on April 23, the zoo said. They are doing \u201cfantastic,\u201d according to the zoo\u2019s director of herpetology, Lauren Augustine. (Herpetology refers to the study of reptiles and amphibians.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25401,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25402,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25399\/revisions\/25402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}