Rocket the tortoise zooming to Tulsa

 
CARRIE COPPERNOLL | Published: July 7, 2009   

One of the oldest and largest Aldabra tortoises in captivity will soon arrive at the Tulsa Zoo.

Rocket, a 609-pound male, will be transported from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., to the Tulsa Zoo in the coming weeks. Rocket will spend the next three to five years in Tulsa.

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Though the zoos have agreed to move Rocket, Tulsa Zoo officials have a few more weeks of paperwork to complete before the final OK is given, spokeswoman Jodi Koch said. The Tulsa City...
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