Wednesday, March 7, 2012


All of you know Gordie the Social Tortie. He is a sulcata tortoise. They are native to the Sahara Desert - but Gordie chooses to live with all of us in Arizona. This little sulcata, born a few weeks ago, lives at a museum of science in Kiev. That's in the Ukraine, and the Ukraine is in Russia, and Russia is in both Europe and Asia, which are on the planet Earth, and .... Well, this sulcata tortoise is actually two tortoises inside the same shell. They have separate heads, separate hearts, separate lungs, etc. One side has been named Menga and the other side Lenka.