A grant exotic tortoise, aged 250 plus is kicking in the Kolkata zoo in India. He came to this zoo in 1857, already aged 10 plus. Named Addyaita (the peerless one), he is one of a few globally surviving members of a fascinating group of reptiles.
He belongs to a species from the Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean. He was at least an octogenarian when Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was studying the evolutionary pecularities of the tortoise’s even bigger cousins in the Galapagos off the coast of Ecuador.
Source: The Hindu newspaper from India
