Tagged: tortoise

12:05pm

Fri July 22, 2011
Animal health care

WSU’s story of Gamera, the wheeled-tortoise, goes viral

Phone calls and email from around the world have been streaming in since the story broke yesterday of the African tortoise whose injured leg was replaced with a caster wheel, said Washington State University spokesman Charlie Powell.

“The minute I knew of it, I knew the story would be international and had the potential to go viral,” he said. “And, I think you can say it has.”

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4:00pm

Thu July 21, 2011
Animal health care

Update with video: Tortoise's artificial limb from Ace Hardware

Credit Associated Press

PULLMAN, Wash. — The artificial limb put on an African tortoise at Washington State University didn't come from a high-tech prosthetics lab. It came from Ace Hardware in Pullman.

(Video inside)

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