Our tortoise,Zola, has a human friend called David (aged80something) who visited the island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic,(where Napoleon was exiled by the British after Waterloo) many years ago and met Jonathan, the oldest tortoise in the world .
Now a friend of his, to whom he had talked about Zola, has just sent him this photo , taken in 1948, of herself and other children with Jonathan, who was already 110 years old !!
She is the little girl at the front, aged 4, who later became a doctor on the island (aged77 now)
Jonathan is still alive, of course,living happily on the governor's lawn.
I include a photo of David, holding Zola,without whom this photo would never have come to light
Angie
Now a friend of his, to whom he had talked about Zola, has just sent him this photo , taken in 1948, of herself and other children with Jonathan, who was already 110 years old !!
She is the little girl at the front, aged 4, who later became a doctor on the island (aged77 now)
Jonathan is still alive, of course,living happily on the governor's lawn.
I include a photo of David, holding Zola,without whom this photo would never have come to light
Angie
