SOPA PASSES ON.
(Sent In by P. J. Koycroft, Kimberly Road, Waihi; age 11.) Sopa, the London Zoo's famous twohundred year old tortoise, has died of pneumonia, believed to be the result of an attack of influenza. The giant tortoise, a native of Galapagos Islands, was the finest and largest cpecimen of his kind ever seen in the zoo, for he was between four and five feet long and weighed nearly half a ton. He came to the gardens five years ago, having narrowly escaped a very different fate. Only a few weeks before he had been exhibited outside a restaurant in Valparaiso as an advertisement for soup, and if an Englishman had not happened to pass by and notice that Sopa was a remarkable animal, the elephantine tortoise would have been used for soup.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 18
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