Peter Crimmins
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
The four hatchlings are western Santa Cruz Island Galapagos tortoises. The Philadelphia Zoo's Lauren Augustine says there may be more on the way.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
The parents are Abrazo and Mami, each approaching 100 years old. Mami has been in the Philadelphia Zoo for 93 years, captured wild in 1932. Augustine says that makes her genes extremely rare.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
There are 44 western Santa Cruz tortoises in captivity and only a few hundred in the wild. For NPR News, I'm Peter Crimmins in Philadelphia.