111-Year-Old Reptile Is a Daddy
Continuing what has suddenly become Weird Animal Week at Simply Dumb, the Associated Press brings us a tale of a 111-year-old tuatara that has impregnated his mate.
The tuatara is a reptile considered to be one of the last remaining remnants of the dinosaurs. It’s a good thing his ancestors weren’t this good at reproduction or they’d have the run of the place. Henry and his younger mate Mildred (a spry lass between 70 and 80) have a dozen eggs after mating at New Zealand’s Southland Museum. The tuatara curator said Henry hadn’t had any interest in sex until a cancerous growth was removed from his genitalia. Gee, imagine that. I don’t imagine too many lady tuataras were interested before then either.
Henry is now living the good life with not one, not two, but three lady friends. Geez, this wrinkled old reptile is just like Hugh Hefner. Well, except Henry is younger.
Image by Dick Dangerous licensed under Creative Commons.
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