Thursday, December 08, 2005
150 years
have always wondered what this looked like.
"Adam mating with Eve, another D. hololissa
About Adam there is an interesting story to tell. In 1881 the English governor in Seychelles had so many tortoises around government house that he decided to mark them. Adam seems to be one of them, and has the roman number X engraved on his shield, so he must have been one of the first to be marked. Seen the size of this engraving he must have been at least about 30 years old at that moment and probably is about 150 years old, but he can be much older as we don’t know what age he exactly had at that time. Begin December 2002 another happy event, this time 3 baby tortoises from a 6 eggs clutch from Betty hatched."
