Turtle, Terrapin and Tortoise

[Rishi]

(03-18-2020, 12:10 PM)Spalea Wrote: " Jonathan ? is just a few years away from being the all-time verified record holder of the world's oldest tortoise. Tu'i Malila, the current title holder, died in Tonga in 1965 at 189-years-old.
Only one other tortoise was thought to be older. Adwaita, who died in 2006 in Kolkata, India, was believed to have been 255-years-old at the time of his death, but that has not been confirmed. "

Adwaita was born mostly likely sometime in the 1750s on Aldabra Atoll of Seychelles, exact year not known.

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But the animal was one of four tortoises that lived at Robert Clive's estate at Barrackpore, in the northern suburbs of Kolkata (then Calcutta). 
Clive came to Bengal for the 1st time in 1757 & returned to Britain in 1760, most of which was constant military campaigns... Later he came in 1765 as British Governor of the Bengal Presidency & ruled until '67 (dead in 1774). 

So that narrows down the possible dates of him acquiring & bringing the tortoise to India. Reply