harriet, the Gálapagos Tortoise is dead!
(this info is from wiki.)
Harriet was thought to be a male for many years and was actually named Harry after Harry Oakman, the curator of the zoo at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, but this was corrected in the 1960s by a visiting biologist. (As it happens, Tom, the specimen in the Queensland Museum, is also a female.)
On November 15, 2005, her much publicized 175th birthday was celebrated at the Australia Zoo. This event was attended by Scott Thomson (the researcher on Harriet's history), 3 generations of the Fleay family, Robin Stewart (author of Darwin's Tortoise), and many hundreds of others who knew this tortoise during the latter part of her long voyage through time.
Harriet died peacefully in her enclosure on June 23, 2006 of heart failure following a short illness.

