🐢 Sex Addicted Tortoise Retires At The Age Of 130

Diego displayed an exceptional sex drive, so much so, he's credited with helping save his species from extinction.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jamnason, I say, that's pity a man's
not here today, because she likes news from the Animal Kingdom,
and I'm sure she would love this story about Diego,
the one hundred year old galabocus turtle who has been.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's actually saved his entire species from extinction by fathering
over eight hundred offspring.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Takes a bit of time.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
That takes a bit of time, Brian.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It is believed Diego perhaps way back in nineteen ten,
so he's at least one hundred years old. He was
purchased from a zoo in San Diego in the seventies
and he helped boost the population of the changed species
from well up to two thousand, like two thousand he
in that time, him and there's a bunch of other

(00:47):
people that were helping out, but.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Two thousand extra turtle.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
So they're saying that he is now accredited forty percent
of them through to this population.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
So now he's got to retire.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
He's going to retire one.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
They're gonna put on those those hand crafted signs on
his shell done routin, you know the retirees get when
they go on there. And he's also like say he's
the Mick Jagger of the Gilapple turtle world.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
And that's extraordinary. Boss, just sind us waving her hands
around furiously. What's the matter. Have you heard what a
turtle mating sounds like? No? No, I have not. So
you just had that there. We've been listening all morning.
Well you've been listening all morning to that. Yeah, the

(01:35):
producers have been practicing. Is that, Diego? That's a male turtle? Yeah?
And what do you want to know what a female
sounds like? Have you've got the male? Yeah? Sure that's different.
What have you put them together? Bran?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Where's our censor when we need them? And this is
what you're doing. Amanda's not in today and you're listening
to turtles mating but they're so cute. Well, I apologize,
Hang on, they're cute. You're watching the mating.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
They're just cute. They sound cute. The girl does anyway, right? People,
I don't know, I don't know.