Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, I just think it’s cool to see an animal in such an old photo that’s still alive today.

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think that photo is from 1886, not with those vehicles in the background. So I assumed it was a joke comment or AI, but all the subjects had normal finger counts, so I assumed joke.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The photo is from 1947, not 1886, according to my hasty googling.

      The tortoise is from ~1832 and still alive and would’ve been around 50 in 1886.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I got a link for on the wrong picture, that is indeed the one I meant to post.

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re right, I made a mistake, I put the correct one in.

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