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It Turns Out The World’s Oldest Tortoise Is Gay—And Spoken For
Andrew Jackson was president when Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise was born.
Homosexuality has been exhibited across the animal kingdom, but veterinarians in Africa have uncovered the oldest known living gay creature on earth.
Jonathan, a 186-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise, lives on St Helena, a British territory off the coast of Africa. For nearly 30 years he’s been in a relationship with another tortoise, originally named Frederica. But when doctors repaired a lesion on Frederica, they realized “she” was actually a...
