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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The photo is from 1947, not 1886, according to my hasty googling.

The tortoise is from ~1832 and still alive and would've been around 50 in 1886.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)

Edit Here's a photo of him from 1886 the earlier poster prolly confused this photo with the 1947 photo for some reason.

Edit 2 and looking at these tortoises there was one alive until 2006 who was estimated (but not confirmed) to be from ~1750. That's crazy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwaita

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got a link for the wrong picture, that is indeed the one I meant to post.