Blessed Turtle
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Just today I have again started to listen the book "Ageless" by Andrew Steele, which mentioned this tortoise at the very beginning. BTW, a great book about the real science how we can practically stop aging and dying from it.
Sounds more like they were her pets.
owned?
Yeah. Like women, turtles are property /s
Found Mickey7's alt
Pet Guardian'd isn't as easy to communicate, I guess.
That's a big tawdle
It's not certain this is true, but it's somewhat likely. At least, that's what I'm getting from the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)
Thank god he didn't eat her.
Turtle: “I’ve got connections.”
*Tortoise
All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises
Sumimasen. 🙇♂️
Betsu ni nani mo nai deshita
And they're both dead now. Someone look into that turtle
Steve died like two months after the turtle. This is a little too suspicious.