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 .

Though the zoos have agreed to move Rocket, Tulsa Zoo officials have a few more weeks of paperwork to complete before the ...


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