Ninety-year-old Galapagos Tortoise becomes mother for first time
T3, the Galapagos tortoise is basking in the glow of being a first-time mother - at the age of 90.
The two possible fathers at Dubbo Western Plains Zoo in Australia are aged just 40 and 41.
T3's baby, named NJ was born in early March but the zoo won't know its gender for five years.
It will take NJ that long to reach just 30cm and decades more before achieving an adult size of around 300kg.
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King Penguin Crèche -
The Biggest Day Care Facility On The Planet
If you have children you will no doubt have experienced the heart stopping moment when you realize the little one has wandered off and you cannot see them anywhere. You might imagine, then, how the average King Penguin parent might feel when they return to feed their chick.
In what has to be the biggest day care facility on Earth, thousands upon thousands of king penguins group their offspring together in an attempt to stop them dying in the sub-zero temperatures of South Georgia. They are also better protected from predators in this huge gathering.
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