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DFO’s Animals: Transgender Turtle

Undated 2009 photo from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo shows an Aldabra tortoise that had been named "Mary," in water at the zoo. The zoo recently discovered that the tortoise, thought to be female for more than 50 years, was in fact male. (Cleveland Metroparks Zoo)
Undated 2009 photo from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo shows an Aldabra tortoise that had been named "Mary," in water at the zoo. The zoo recently discovered that the tortoise, thought to be female for more than 50 years, was in fact male. (Cleveland Metroparks Zoo)

Undated 2009 photo from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo shows an Aldabra tortoise that had been named "Mary," in water at the zoo. The zoo recently discovered that the tortoise, thought to be female for more than 50 years, was in fact male. (AP Photo/Cleveland Metroparks Zoo)

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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