Turtle on wheels finds love at Israeli zoo
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Arava the turtle 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-kilogram 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.
- AFP
