A 255-year-old tortoise in the Calcutta Zoo has died. Wait – not Calcutta, but Kolkata, which has apparently been the city’s name since 2001.
The giant Aldabra tortoise was one of four brought by British seamen from the Seychelles Islands as gifts to Robert Clive of the East India Company in 1875.
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