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Three Galapagos tortoises resident at Honolulu Zoo are over 100 years old and were given a centennial party in April 2018 with conservation and education activities. They were also given their favourite treat, a giant fruit cake.
Jaws (male), Charlotte and Kim (females) are three wild Galapagos tortoises donated to the Honolulu Zoo as juveniles in July 1929 by Charles Townsend of the New York Zoological Society.
In 1954, the Honolulu Zoo was the first zoo to hatch Galapagos tortoises and currently houses 10 of them, with the youngest being 47 years old.
Tortoise populations plummeted to near extinction by 1959, so the Ecuadorian government created the Galapagos National Park to protect their habitat.
We saw these two in March and waited in vain for them to show their faces. It was late afternoon and their rest time. I don't know if these are the oldest ones. The larger one was about 4 feet long so could well have been one of the centenarians