Submitted by The_Real_Mr_F t3_11z6jvg in askscience
annieselkie t1_jdd8sit wrote
Reply to comment by Dorocche in What’s the oldest know tortoise with a documented hatching date? by The_Real_Mr_F
😂 yeah tortoises probably didnt receive birth certificates then and werent that documented as modern zoo tortoises. In 1876 the german government started to do birth register and birth certificates, before it was churche's duty and pretty common even. In other countries it may have been in other times or not common at all and surely some people "fell through the cracks" and did not recieve one here as well.
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