{"id":2177204,"date":"2025-11-26T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2177204"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:06:14","slug":"gramma-the-tortoise-san-diego-zoos-oldest-resident-dies-at-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gramma-the-tortoise-san-diego-zoos-oldest-resident-dies-at-141\/","title":{"rendered":"Gramma The Tortoise, San Diego Zoo&#8217;s Oldest Resident, Dies At 141"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"9690\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lYrdc7WUKU?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\&quot; style=\\&quot;top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\\&quot; allowfullscreen scrolling=\\&quot;no\\&quot; allow=\\&quot;accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\\&quot; referrerpolicy=\\&quot;strict-origin\\&quot; id=\\&quot;youtube-embed-6lYrdc7WUKU-7731\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;Associated Press&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC52X5wxOL_s5yw0dQk7NtgA&quot;,&quot;cache_age&quot;:86400,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. 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fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. She died Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>It\u2019s not clear exactly when the tortoise arrived at the San Diego Zoo, but zoo officials said she came from the Bronx Zoo in either 1928 or 1931 as part of their first group of Galapagos tortoises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>As the world changed around her, she delighted visitors with her sweet, shy personality. She lived through two World Wars and 20 U.S. presidents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Her care specialists affectionately called her \u201cthe Queen of the Zoo.\u201d She was suffering from bone conditions related to her old age that progressed recently before she was euthanized, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Many visitors commented on social media about getting to first visit Gramma when they were young, and being able to come back years later with their kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Cristina Park, 69, said one of her earliest memories from her childhood was going to the San Diego Zoo when she was 3 or 4 years old and riding on the back of a tortoise. That\u2019s no longer allowed, but the experience inspired her to keep a small desert tortoise as a pet and learn more about tortoise conservation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cJust how amazing it is that they managed to live through so much,\u201d Park said. \u201cAnd yet they\u2019re still there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Galapagos tortoises can live for over 100 years in the wild, and close to double that in captivity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The oldest known Galapagos tortoise was named Harriet, who lived at the Australia Zoo until the age of 175. She was collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835, when she was just the size of a dinner plate, according to the zoo. This means that she hatched somewhere around 1830, and she died in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Galapagos tortoises include 15 subspecies of tortoises from the islands, three of which were deemed extinct. The rest are all vulnerable or critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Concerted efforts have been made to breed these tortoises in captivity over the past several decades, with more than 10,000 juveniles released to the wild since 1965, according to the Galapagos Conservancy. Some subspecies have been brought back from the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In April, four baby Galapagos tortoises <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tortoise-babies-philadelphia-zoo-pennyslvania-6df3cb9dec59e8a43962de72b2e48379\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"were born at the Philadelphia Zoo\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69260204e4b05f521ddb1c29\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tortoise-babies-philadelphia-zoo-pennyslvania-6df3cb9dec59e8a43962de72b2e48379\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">were born at the Philadelphia Zoo<\/a> to first-time parents that were roughly 100 years old, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tortoise-babies-philadelphia-zoo-pennyslvania-d5b45d0a7697744c9e24c43d890f36cc\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"a first in the zoo\u2019s history\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69260204e4b05f521ddb1c29\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tortoise-babies-philadelphia-zoo-pennyslvania-d5b45d0a7697744c9e24c43d890f36cc\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">a first in the zoo\u2019s history<\/a>. In June, Zoo Miami resident and Galapagos tortoise Goliath <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baby-tortoise-florida-7a4d5719de5919d47fdc7f4ead5c5151\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"became a first-time father\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69260204e4b05f521ddb1c29\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baby-tortoise-florida-7a4d5719de5919d47fdc7f4ead5c5151\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">became a first-time father<\/a> at the age of 135.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. 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