90 years old dad again! Houston Zoo radiated tortoise sour cucumber couple (Mr. and Mrs. Pickles) The good news is that the nurses accidentally found the shooting turtle laying eggs at the end of their work, and quickly collected the newborn turtle eggs and sent them to the nursery for careful hatching, the last time they welcomed the "sour cucumber baby" was 26 years ago. The turtle is a "critically endangered" species with a recorded maximum life span of 188 years.
Houston Zoo said that the conservationists accidentally found that the 53-year-old sour cucumber wife had "buried eggs" when she left work, only to find that she had laid eggs again after 26 years, "because the soil in which they live in the zoo is not conducive to egg hatching, if the conservationists do not find it in time, these eggs may not grow and survive smoothly."
The three precious turtle eggs were sent to the amphibian breeding room, where they were cared for for 5 months under careful temperature and humidity, and finally successfully waited for the baby turtles to successfully break their shells. The babies were named Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño. Mr. Cucumber was born in the 1930s and is 90 years old, but this age is still "middle-aged" for radiation turtles, which have a recorded lifespan of 188 years old, but their reproduction is quite difficult, so newborns are quite rare.
The shooting turtle is endemic to Madagascar, but in the face of habitat destruction and poaching, the IUCN classifies them as "critically endangered".
