Channel: Pets & Animals
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm
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JERUSALEM (AFP) — Arava the tortoise may never walk again, but a makeshift wheelchair has given the 10-year-old reptile wings by helping her to find a mate at an Israeli zoo, her keepers said."Arava came to us a few months ago," Shmulik Yedvad, a spokesman for the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, told reporters. "She was paralysed in her hind legs, and we had to equip her with a metallic cart with two wheels in order for her to be able to move."He said the 25-kilo (55 pound) African spurred tortoise has, since arriving at the zoo, rolled into the heart of a male who was apparently shell-shocked by her new wheels.Tortoise on wheels finds love at Israeli zoo : [ 20 AUGUST 2008 ]