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    Tortoise survives 30 years in a storeroom

    My prison shell: Tortoise's "unbelievable" survival locked in a storeroom for 30 years

    26 Jan 2013 00:00 Manuela the tortoise vanished from her home in 1982 and was given up as lost forever despite a lengthy search




    I'm a survivor: Manuela the tortoise
    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.”

    A word in your shell-like: Reunited with family 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.”

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    This is a cool story. Now I want a tortoise. Seems like a real low maintenance kind of pet.

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    Surely that's impossible? How could it possibly live for thirty years without food or water?

    I'd be happy to be proved wrong cos that'd be truly amazing, but...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    But none of us can understand how she managed to survive for 30 years in there – it’s just unbelievable.”
    Quote Originally Posted by khmen
    Surely that's impossible? How could it possibly live for thirty years without food or water?
    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    He said she may have survived by nibbling termites from the wooden floor and licking condensation off smooth surfaces.
    next unbelievable story....

    a farang has been discovered covered in bargirls living in a high rise condo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    It was only after dad Leonel Almieda died earlier this month that his children began clearing out a second-floor room
    It's Dad's ghost returning to haunt them

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    So does this mean that termites and not vegetables are a necessity of life?




    Licking water from smooth surfaces is not just for tortoises

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Lick View Post
    So does this mean that termites and not vegetables are a necessity of life?




    Licking water from smooth surfaces is not just for tortoises
    Matter of survival skills.
    Some life-forms can adjust. Others can't.

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    And some, like Smeg and ENT, survive but become quite twisted.....permanently and irrevocably.

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    Is that your secret to survival? Interesting, explains a lot.

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    The tortoise came out of his shell.

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    That's a pretty cool story. Wonder what he ate - had to eat something.....

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