“Later on in the night I FaceTimed my mom and she said that people pet him because my aunt said you had to pet him to get candy,” William said. “He got lots of pats by the end of the night, and was a happy camper.”
Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”
There hadn’t been one single baby tortoise sighting in more than a
century on the Galapagos Island of Pinzon, until a small group of the
tiny, shelled youngsters were spotted this year.
The recent births are helping to pull the critically endangered animals
back from the brink of extinction after they were nearly laid to waste
as a result of human activity.
This is huge news for a species that has been struggling to survive for
a century, relying on humans raising young tortoises bred in captivity
until they are large enough to not fall prey to rats and predators.
