150-Year-Old Tortoise Enjoying Head Scratches Has the Perfect Chill Vibe

If there's one animal in the world that deserves our respect, it's the tortoise. They've been through a lot, living over a century and traveling thousands of miles in the meantime. Despite what everyone says about tortoises being slow, they can actually be pretty fast when they need to, and when they don't they just want to take in the world.

Their lives are relatively laid back, which is exactly what they deserve. If you had to live for over a hundred years, you probably wouldn't want to be running and hiding the whole time, either. On Thursday, May 2nd, one zoo-based tortoise spent the day getting head scratches, and it was just the sweetest thing:

You can find tortoises at just about any zoo, but Edie at the San Antonio Zoo has my heart. What an adorable name for a tortoise!

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Edie has lived at the San Antonio Zoo since 1973, meaning that she's spent 51 years there. At 150 years old, that's only a third of her life! Since she landed in San Antonio, she's enjoyed thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables, met what must be millions of adoring fans, and received so many head scratches it's impossible to count them all.

Being 150 would mean Edie was born in 1874. That means she's lived through:

1. Both World Wars
2. 29 out of 46 US presidents
3. 7 British monarchs
4. The invention of color TV
5. The Great Depression

All of that means absolutely nothing to Edie herself, but it's fascinating: I would love to know how her care has evolved over her long life. Though she was born about 30 years after the Industrial Revolution, she was born before the big boom in deforestation: what did her natural habitat look like when she was a baby?

Aldabra Tortoises Are Very Docile

Tortoises aren't the most common pets in the world, but they're not exactly rare, either. Aldabra tortoises are known to be very sweet and social: they're easy to "tame." They love sweet treats like flowers and fruits, and if you spend a little time getting to know them, they really come out of their shell (no pun intended).

Since they live for anywhere from 100-150 years on average, though, they are a pet you need to consider when you're making up your will. You'll need to have somewhere to leave them, whether that's with another family member or with a sanctuary/zoo. If you'd like to leave the animal to the professionals, you can work that out with a meeting. Whatever you do, do not release a captive tortoise into the wild. How will they get their head scratches?!