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Harriet Is DeadHarriet Is Dead
Cut down at the tender age of 175
June 23, 2006
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10:25 AM -- Sad news from the BBC today:
Harriet the tortoise, one of the world's oldest known living creatures, has died in Australia aged about 175.
Senior vet Dr John Hangar told Australia's ABC that Harriet, a Giant Galapagos tortoise, had died of heart failure after a short illness.
"She had a very fairly acute heart attack and thankfully passed away quietly overnight," Dr Hangar said...
Her keepers put her longevity down to a stress-free life.
(Red Panda commemorated her 175th birthday last fall: Darwin's Tortoise.)
— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading
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