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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”
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Is that a joke I'm too dumb to get?
No, I just think it's cool to see an animal in such an old photo that's still alive today. He wasn't young even then.
I don't think that photo is from 1886, not with those vehicles in the background. So I assumed it was a joke comment or AI, but all the subjects had normal finger counts, so I assumed joke.
The photo is from 1947, not 1886, according to my hasty googling.
The tortoise is from ~1832 and still alive and would've been around 50 in 1886.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)
Edit Here's a photo of him from 1886 the earlier poster prolly confused this photo with the 1947 photo for some reason.
Edit 2 and looking at these tortoises there was one alive until 2006 who was estimated (but not confirmed) to be from ~1750. That's crazy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwaita
I got a link for the wrong picture, that is indeed the one I meant to post.
You're right, I made a mistake. I put the correct one in.