A giant tortoise of Aldabra suffered serious injuries due to fights with other turtles. Timmy, as the tortoise was called, suffered wounds to the upper shell. Timmy is a 23-year-old with body weight 153 pounds, is a turtle that is protected because it includes rare animals.
One of the zoo staff Paington, Ghislaine Sayers, trying to make the cover 'crash helmet' which is made of fiberglass that serves to maintain cleanliness and protect from attacks dirt / germs. Hole cut in it like dailymail written recently, can make a turtle becomes ill and the most feared result in death.
Mike Bungard, an expert observer of the vertebrate Paington zoo said, "I think the shell was already damaged by the fight." For the entire board binatangi garden will try to do the healing of the wound and hoped things would return to normal shell in the 18 months ahead.
Maintenance technician zoo, Don Neilsen, has designed a shell made by writing the number 91, this will facilitate the tortoise easily recognized many orangda hope Timmy can go back to normal. In order for the healing goes well, Timmy is isolated from similar animals and given special attention.
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