Turtle Divorce: Giant Turtles Divorce After 115 Years Together

[rug]

Posted: 06/08/2012 2:40 pm Updated: 06/09/2012 4:57 am

You can't say they didn't try.

After an impressive 115 years together, two giant turtles at an Austrian zoo are refusing to share their cage anymore, the Austrian Times reported Friday.

"We get the feeling they can't stand the sight of each other anymore," said Helga Happ, director of the Klagenfurt-based zoo, where the turtles -- Bibi, the female and Poldi, the male -- have lived for the last 36 years. Before that, they called Basel Zoo in Switzerland home.

According to the paper, zoo staff realized something was amiss when Bibi bit off a chunk of her partner's shell. When the attacks continued, Poldi was moved to another cage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/turtle-divorce_n_1581463.html?ref=mostpopular

Bibi and Poldi in happier times.



The look on her face says it's over.

[lunatica]

1. Maybe Bibi is going through menopause and doesn't want sex all the fucking time

I can relate. Sex triggers hot flashes.

[rug]

2. You may be right. Their best years are in front of them.

[KamaAina]

3. So that's it! Same-sex marriage devalues *turtle* marriage.

Santorectum may have been on to something with that box turtle thing after all.

[rug]

5. Hmmm, after 115 years, then Biden opens his big mouth, now this.

[Wait Wut]

4. This is horrible!!!

What about the children?!!?

[rug]

6. At last reports, the children were gathering to heal this tragic rift.

They should get there by 2018.

Hold on, Bibi and Poldi!

[cbayer]

7. Who hasn't bit off a piece of their partner's shell?

They've been giving them aphrodisiacs, so there may be hope.

[rug]

8. TMI

[cbayer]

14. It might be the bath salts.

[rug]

17. Lol

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. They need to bring in a spiritual advisor...

[rug]

10. He looks distraught over this.

No one likes to see their parents divorce.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Duzy!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Reminds me of the joke about the elderly couple

who came to a lawyer seeking advice about getting a divorce.

"We've been married for 75 years and we just can't stand being together any more," the old man told the lawyer.

The lawyer, looking a bit shocked, replied, "But if you've been together all this time, why would you get divorced now?"

The old lady answered, "We wanted to wait until the children were dead."

[rug]

15. Lol!

[pipi_k]

13. This makes me sad enough

to dedicate a song to them.

Even turtles can have a broken heart....

[rug]

16. I watched this with your song playing in the background.

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[A Simple Game]

18. After a while you just run out of things to talk about. n/t

[rug]

19. . . . . yup . . . .