This is Mr.
Mack.
He's an Aldabra tortoise, a giant tortoise species that can
live past 180 and may have the longest lifespan of
any creature on the planet.
Hailing from the Aldabra Atoll, a small cluster of coral
islands in the Indian Ocean, the Aldabra tortoise is massive,
endowed with a domed shell, long neck and strong claws.
They can grow to be longer than 4 feet and
can weigh as much as £500.
They live in grasslands and subsist on a diet of
dry, nutrient rich vegetation.
And Aldabra tortoise has never met a blade of grass
it didn't like.
And it won't be deterred from eating it, even if
it takes a while to reach it.
But the tortoises have had a harder time finding food
because of habitat destruction caused by humans and, increasingly, climate
change.
This is the AL Dabra tortoise.