http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged tortoises en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 08:10:33 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/giant-tortoise-bachelors-al-and-tex-find-romance-at-long-last/ It's been a long time comin' so to speak, for these poor tortoises Al and Tex. 20 years has past since they have seen a bit of tortoise action but all that changed when the noticed a couple of females over in Atlanta. "At first glance, Al and Tex don't sound like George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Al is 130 years old and weighs 250 kilograms while Tex, a mere 90, tips the scale at 160kg. Al last saw a female tortoise in 1983 and Tex, whose memories are a littl... ]]> Fri, 27 May 2011 00:30:25 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/giant-tortoise-bachelors-al-and-tex-find-romance-at-long-last/ http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/man-tries-to-board-plane-with-suitcases-full-of-wild-life/ AIRPORT works in Bangkok were stunned to find a passenger attempting to board a plane with three suitcases stuffed full of live animals. The bags contained more than 100 tortoises, 34 pythons, 19 lizards, 22 squirrels, 25 lizards, two boa constrictors, frogs, 18 baboon spiders and an African grey parrot. It even contained a ploughshare tortoise – a critically endangered species with only about 200 adults in the world. The 34-year-old Indone... ]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:15:59 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/nature/man-tries-to-board-plane-with-suitcases-full-of-wild-life/