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• Position: CHINA - Giant soft-shelled turtle - Brief article

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The fate of the Yangtze giant soft-shelled turtle, which can weigh up to 220 pounds, depends on whether two elderly turtles in Chinese zoos are able to reproduce. Only one female is known to exist, an 80-year-old that has spent 50 years in a zoo in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, in southern China. In May, scientists drove her 600 miles to a zoo in the city of Suzhou in Jiansu Province, where a 100-year-old mate turtle...