Where is everyone’s favourite tortoise? Well, alas, she’s still hunkered down for her winter snooze in a box in a downstairs cupboard – to be honest she probably has the right idea…
Asked on 18th February when Manny might emerge, Maintenance Officer Bob Cowley said:
First or second week of March – depending on what the weather’s like. She’s still alive. I know because I checked in there this morning and gave her a poke. She doesn’t like being woken up.
(If you want to hear Bob’s impression of a grumpy slumbersome tortoise, then you’ll just have to ask him yourself.)
Not enough tortoise news? Still dreaming of pancakes?
This past Tuesday Longleat Safari Park held joint Pancake Day and Tortoise Birthday Celebrations:
