Increase|The giant turtle named “mother” mated with a male of the same age group at the Philadelphia Zoo last year.
The abstract is made by artificial intelligence and checked by man.
The centenary Galápagossaari’s giant turtle received offspring for the first time at the Philadelphia Zoo in the United States.
The previously called the “mother”, a turtle egg laid 16 eggs, at least four of which have hatched in artificial burial.
The chicks represent a new genetic lineage. In this way, they help the survival of the endangered species.
The Philadelphia Zoo has been growing giant turtles for 150 years.
Centenary Four boys have hatched from the turtle egg, told the Philadelphia Zoo in the United States at the end of last week.
The eggs laid the zoo’s giant turtle, which was once named “mother” in the zoo. Now that name came true. Mother is the oldest known to the Galápagosaari Giant Turtles.
Mother is a giant turtle on the western part of Santa Cruz Island of Galápagosaarit (Chelonoidis Niger Portri).
Mother’s exact age is not known even at the zoo. In any case, it has lived for about a hundred years, of which most of which in the Philadelphia zoo.
“The mother arrived at the zoo in 1932. It means that almost every one in the zoo has seen it,” says Philadelphia Director of the Zoo Jo-She Mogerman in the zoo bulletin.
The first -born mother is part of the giant turtle breeding programs in different US zoos.
Mother I laid 16 eggs in November 2024. The zoo took the eggs in artificial burial.
Turtles are usually able to reproduce their entire lives, that is, after being matured.
Galapágos giant turtles are determined by the temperature in which the eggs are buried.
About 28 degrees Celsius usually produce males in the egg. The temperature of more than 29.5 degrees Celsius is females.
At the zoo Half of the eggs were buried and still buried in the heat of the males, and the other half is suitable for females. Burning can continue until summer.
By the beginning of April, the eggs buried in the heat of the females had only been hatched.
Last year, a mother or mother met a male named Abrazzo. It is also about a hundred years old.
Abrazzo moved to Philadelphia from the Riverbanks Zoo in South Carolina in December 2020.
Riverbanks had succeeded in growing the giant turtles on the Western Santa Cruz island in the 2010s.
Mother’s burial was successful for the fourth time. The Philadelphia Zoo has been growing turtles for 150 years.
At birth, the chicks are only a few centimeters long.
Santa Cruz on The second largest island in the Galápagosaari islands. The island is located in the Pacific West of Ecuador.
Evolutionary father Charles Darwin (1809-1882) made the islands famous with their writings.
The island consists of a volcano already extinguished and covers almost a thousand square kilometers. More than 10,000 people live on the island.
Giant turtles DNAs seem to show that Santa Cruz would live in three separate subspecies.
The mother would be the western species of the island and one of the Galápagosaari giant turtles on at least twelve living sub -species on seven islands.
Giant turtles on the western part of Santa Cruz are well threatened in their right environment, List the International Association for Nature Conservation (IUCN).
“Previously 44 western Santa Cruz giant turtles have hatched in US zoos, ”says Ashley Ortega.
He coordinates a program for Galápagos giant turtles at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Texas.
“The resulting turtles represent a new genetic line. They help to survive the sport,” Ortega says.
The number of turtles on the islands decreased until the 1930s. In zoos, their number increases steadily.