A THREE-legged tortoise has been fitted with a set of wheels to help him get around. Hope, a male ploughshare tortoise, was rescued from smugglers in Hong Kong and given a new lease of life in the …
A THREE-legged tortoise has been fitted with a set of wheels to help him get around.and given a new lease of life in the UK.Credit: Cover ImagesCredit: Cover Images
And now he is able to roll around with three other tortoises at Chester Zoo after keepers fitted him with under-shell support rollers.Outside of that, only 63 legally exist as part of conservation breeding programmes to save the species. The zoo’s Dr Gerardo Garcia said: “Hope is an incredibly special tortoise, for many reasons. Firstly, ploughshare tortoises are exceptionally rare.
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