A 90-year-old tortoise named Rocket is a master escape artist. The more than 500-pound animal has broken out of enclosures at two zoos.
WITCHITA, Kan. — A 90-year-old tortoise named Rocket has broken out of enclosures at two different zoos.
Rocket was one of the first animals at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, when it opened in the early 1970s.“He actually attained a length that could span the length of the bars," Rocket's handler in 2009, Nate Nelson, told ABC affiliate KAKE."He could get his legs over the edge of this and just walk right down.”“We had the same problem where he escaped there multiple times,” Rocket’s handler at Tulsa Zoo, Chris Williams, told the news outlet.
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