Tortoise survives in locked store room for 30 years

[LarryAppleton]

Cliffs
- Manuela the tortoise disappears from Brazilian home in 1982
- Family assumes she ran away
- Patriarch dies in 2013. Family begins cleaning out his locked storage room
- Tortoise found alive inside box carrying old record player
- Red-footed Tortoise = resilient and probably survived off dead termites and licking condensation.

DAT DERE LINK


Manuela the tortoise has been found alive – after more than 30 years locked in a storeroom.

She was finally spotted after being put out for the binmen in a box of rubbish.

And last night she was reunited with her amazed owners as they described her survival as “incredible”.

Manuela vanished from her home in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and was given up as lost forever despite a lengthy search.

Her owners assumed she had crawled away after builders working on the house left the front door open.

It was only after dad Leonel Almieda died earlier this month that his children began clearing out a second-floor room he had filled with broken electrical items and always kept locked.

Son Leandro was astonished to find Manuela shuffling around in a cardboard box containing an old record player.

He told Brazil’s Globo G1 website: “I put the box on the pavement for the binmen to collect, and a neighbour said, ‘You’re not throwing the tortoise out as well are you?’ I looked and saw Manuela.

"And at that moment I turned white. I just could not believe what I was seeing.”



His sister Lenita, who had been given the tortoise as a childhood pet, said: “Everything my father thought he could fix, he picked up and brought home.

“If he found an old television he thought he might be able to use a part of it to fix another one in the future, so he just kept accumulating things.

"We never dared go inside that room.

“We are all thrilled to have Manuela back. But none of us can understand how she managed to survive for 30 years in there – it’s just unbelievable.”

Local vet Jeferson Pires explained that Manuela is a red-footed tortoise, a species that can go for up to three years without eating.

He said she may have survived by nibbling termites from the wooden floor and licking condensation off smooth surfaces.

He added: “They are particularly resilient creatures.”

[mozzer6]

Holy chit

Man:Turtle
Job:Good

[iREciProcate]

Yea I found a box turtle last year and put him in the basement of my house when I was in college to eat little bugs. Put him down there in september and released him into the wild in May when I moved out...
They'll live off that stuff for years. I've heard of people having one live in their basement off bugs for 50+ years

[Benjjcan]

dafuqqqqqqq

[AirMax12]

[LarryAppleton]

I've heard of people having one live in their basement off bugs for 50+ years

The part that shocked me most was how condensation provided it enough water to survive.

[jazi]

what a ****ing warrior

[ispy]

people will come up with anything to get their 15 minutes of fame these days.

[TypeZero]

I can confirm, I was condensation.

[nvrstopworking]

Wow. Some serious survival skills there.

Metabolism of peace.

[TheJizzler]

It's amazing how little food and water reptiles need. It's mainly because they're slow as chit and don't lose water through their skin.

[myfacewhen]

Mind = blown

Can we get some links up in here

[SICKK]

tortoise of peace

[Magnumtripod]

Upon finding the tortoise, i would proceed to feed it a meal fit for a king

[poolshark472]

If I was that tortoise I would bite each of those stupid ****s right on their stupid fat South American fingers. Giving up looking for me like the kid in the puppy who lost his way, instead of relentlessly scouring the land until they found me.

[Sounds Good]

What really happened:

The father was keeping the tortoise to himself and feeding it all these years

/thread

[thewiz8807]

If the other tortoise is a female, she will move away and the male will follow, touching her carapace and occasionally sniffing at her cloaca. If the female stops, the male may either wait for her to resume moving or leave. Males make loud 'clucking' sounds during the chase. After trailing, the male mounts the female, his feet planted on the costals of her carapace, rams his anal scutes against her supracaudal, and makes a loud raspy 'bark'. If the female resumes walking, he may fall off and resume trailing. Females sometimes seem to intentionally use low limbs to knock males off. A receptive female will extend her hind legs and lift her plastron as the male plants himself on his own extended hind legs as he works to align their cloacas for insertion. The tail, scutes, and penis of the tortoise are designed to work around the awkwardness of the shell. The male often leans his head over her head and holds his jaws wide open making calls that get louder. He may bite her as well, sometimes quite aggressively. The shells can make loud clacking noises during the forceful thrusts. The female walks away after copulation, sometimes knocking the male off her.

[Ace Thedics]

people will come up with anything to get their 15 minutes of fame these days.

This.

Complete b.s

[Weakmode]

Tortoise probably didn't even care.

[briiii]

What really happened:

The father was keeping the tortoise to himself and pleasuring himself with it

/thread

fixed

[LaurenceW]

[ChiefBenjamin]

people will come up with anything to get their 15 minutes of fame these days.

dude u just killed this story for me, but im now going to have to agree with u on this

no way is this real...

[Brahtactic]

what the ****

[SnakeintheGrass]

sick kunt tortoise

[drock2190]

Upon finding the tortoise, i would proceed to feed it a meal fit for a king

I wouldn't know what to feed him. Would probably put him in a box and toss him a loaf of bread...

And ice cream

[Nefariousx1]

sick kunt tortoise

does anyone else feel sorry for this poor thing?


30 years of nothing.....


wtf......

[McKlown]

he must've been on no fap or at least no shampoo

[tunyce]

pure survival instincts. Darwinism wins

[Ganjamayne]

Must of been a long 30 years for that Tortoise god damn.

[mikevall]

does anyone else feel sorry for this poor thing?


30 years of nothing.....


wtf......

lyk dis if u cry eretyme




srs sad as fuk