When most people visit the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, California, they’re probably mostly focused on the big, showy animals. Elephants, lions, chimps, and the like are fun and dramatic. But if you head to the back of the zoo, right by the entrance to the children’s zoo, you’ll find something even more remarkable: the zoo’s Aldabra tortoises. They might not look like much (big, moving rocks would be one way to put it), but they have an amazing secret. One tortoise, named OJ, is over 120 years old. That makes him older than any living human on earth.
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