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ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named Othello ...

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Othello and his buddy Ray, who is still living at the Saint Louis Zoo, arrived in the United States as mature adults in 1938 – a whopping 87 years ago. Experts they were at least “several decades” old ...