We are sad to report that Quasimodo the CFZ Snapping Turtle who has lived with us since early 1998 dies earlier today.He was a rescue, donated to us from the previous owners of Tropiquaria Animal Park in Somerset. He had lived with them for ten years and was fully grown when they got him, so we estimate he was at least 35 years old, which is not a bad age for a common snapping turtle, especially considering that he had a chronic spinal deformity.
We don't know yet whether we will be replacing him, but as I have had snapping turtles ever since 1985, I think that it is quite likely...
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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What subspecies was he?
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