Harriet, 2002

Harriet is a Galápagos tortoise believed to be, at an estimated 175 years, the oldest known living animal in the world. Image File history File links Harriet_fg1. ... Image File history File links Harriet_fg1. ... Binomial name Geochelone nigra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) The Galápagos tortoise (or giant Galápagos tortoise), Geochelone nigra, is the largest living tortoise. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...

It was originally thought that Harriet was first captured by Charles Darwin in 1835 on the Galápagos Islands. As the tortoises were then dinner plate sized it is estimated they would have been six years old. DNA testing has in fact indicated her to have been born around 1830. In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as an influential scientist examining controversial topics. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Orthographic projection centred over the Galapagos For the novel Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, see: Galápagos (book) The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of 13 volcanic islands, and associated islets and rocks located in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 kilometers west of the coast of South America. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and most viruses). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

However the story regarding Darwin is most likely apocryphal. Though Darwin caught three tortoises and took them home to Britain aboard the HMS Beagle, genetic tests indicate that Harriet belongs to a sub-species endemic to one of the Galapagos Islands that Darwin never visited. In Judeo-Christian theologies, apocrypha refers to religious Sacred text that have questionable authenticity or are otherwise disputed. ... HMS Beagle (centre) from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley, painted during the third voyage while surveying Australia. ... Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean belonging or native to, characteristic of, or prevalent in a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; Native to an area or scope. ...

Harriet at age 174.

For over a century, Harriet was actually mistaken as a male, and thus named Harry.[1] Harriet. ... Harriet. ...

For 99 years she lived at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, but now resides at the Australia Zoo, owned by The Crocodile Hunter's Steve Irwin. A duckpond in the Gardens Gardens Point QUT campus is adjacent to the gardens. ... Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia is owned by Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin, who costar on the The Crocodile Hunter, which is the name of their unconventional nature documentary series on television, as well as a spin_off series Croc Files. ... Image:Ozoo. ... Steve Irwin Stephen Robert Steve Irwin (born February 22, 1962 in Essendon, Victoria, Australia) is the owner and manager of the Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia. ...

On November 15, 2005, her much publicised 175th birthday was celebrated at the Australia Zoo.

External links

• Darwin's Dinner Plate
• BBC News: Zoo celebrates Harriet the tortoise's 175th birthday