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186 year old turtle still likes to Netflix and chill

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super-heated plasma

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186!

Straight? Gay? Bisexual? He may be 186 years old, but the years have clearly done little to quell the sexual appetite of Jonathan, the famous giant tortoise who resides on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena.

Jonathan, the world's oldest living land animal, has been in the spotlight this week after the Times reported that Frederica, the tortoise he has been ”wooing" for the last 26 years, may actually be a ‘Frederic'.

The animals reportedly became smitten in 1991 when then 8 week-old Frederica was presented to the then governor of the British Overseas Territory. There is now, however, a question mark over Frederica's gender.

”It's unsure," Catherine Man, the island's vet, told Fox News. ”She could be male, she could be female."

Man explained that male tortoises typically have a concave indent called a ”plastron" on the lower portion of their shells that allows them to mount females for mating. Frederica, though, has a slight shell deformity, which makes it hard to tell whether she has a plastron or not, according to Man.

Jonathan and Frederica, now the ripe old age of 26, reside in the lush grounds of Plantation House, the official residence of St. Helena's governor. ”Jonathan lives in the paddock at the bottom of my garden with three other tortoises," the island's Governor, Lisa Phillips, told Fox News via email.

The governor, who took up her post in April 2016, says that she has not seen Jonathan attempting to mate with Frederica, but notes that they are ”often together". She has, however, seen Jonathan getting amorous with 49-year-old Emily, another of the tortoises that lives in the grounds of Plantation House. Given his advanced years, she adds ”this is pretty remarkable."

Man, who arrived on the island last October, also said that she has not seen any attempted mating activity between Jonathan and Frederica.

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, arrived in St. Helena in 1882, when he was around 50 years old.
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186 years old. I'm more interested in discussing the fact that this one animal is almost as old as the United States. It is hard to believe how much the world has changed in almost 200 years, and yet this turtle just chilled on an island while the whole time humans were devising new ways of killing each other, and nations rose and fell. We went from muskets to splitting the atom. We went from horse and buggy to traveling to the moon. So much more has happened in human history in the two centuries this one turtle has lived. So crazy to think about. If we could ask this turtle one question about human history he has lived through, his response would probably be, "meh."
 
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super-heated plasma said:
186!




186 years old. I'm more interested in discussing the fact that this one animal is almost as old as the United States. It is hard to believe how much the world has changed in almost 200 years, and yet this turtle just chilled on an island while the whole time humans were devising new ways of killing each other, and nations rose and fell. We went from muskets to splitting the atom. We went from horse and buggy to traveling to the moon. So much more has happened in human history in the two centuries this one turtle has lived. So crazy to think about. If we could ask this turtle one question about human history he has lived through, his response would probably be, "meh."
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Yet for all our achievements, this old horndog has outsmarted us all
 
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So.. just because Frederica has a deformed shell and doesn’t have sex with grandpa Jonathan because he’s banging miss Emily, that means Frederica could be a dude and Jonathan has feelings for him and they spend so much time together?

Sounds interesting...

Anyway, can’t they do blood tests and compare the estrogen and testosterone levels of several tortoises and see where Frederic(a) fits?
 
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