Patches, popular giant tortoise at Zoo Atlanta, has died; believed to be more than 70 years old

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Patches, a 200-pound Aldabra giant tortoise, would slowly but determinedly make her way from her glassed-in winter enclosure to her outdoor warm-weather habitat.","_id":"Y33WGRP3B5A4DOYZK43TMEKYCY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689223,"type":"text","content":"One year, the zoo even made her internet famous by strapping a GoPro camera to the top of her shell and posting the video of her walk on YouTube.","_id":"WQIP6XA27ZC47LPQYCDPFCZ2TE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689224,"type":"text","content":"On Saturday, though, the zoo announced that Patches has passed on. Animal care and veterinary teams had been treating her during the past week for lethargy, weakness, lack of appetite and fluid build-up, Zoo Atlanta said in a news release. A CT scan revealed a large mass in her body cavity and other health concerns.","_id":"Z2QPI2AH2FGW7C2MQRXJIRWEWM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689225,"type":"text","content":"With the reptile’s quality of life in doubt, the teams made the “difficult decision” on Saturday to euthanize her, the zoo said.","_id":"WU7SS7TIUBH2NJTVYB2OSNIWZU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689226,"type":"text","content":"Jennifer Mickelberg, Zoo Atlanta’s vice president of Collections and Conservation, said in a written statement that Patches “had a personality on par with her size, and she will be dearly missed.","_id":"WU7SS7TIUBH2NJTVYB2OSNIWZU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689227,"type":"text","content":"“It is not difficult to make connections with an animal such as a gorilla or a giant panda or a giraffe,” Dr. Mickelberg said. “Some people find it more challenging to connect with reptiles, which makes Patches’ legacy all the more extraordinary.”","_id":"EADSVYLXRRANTP6APW6SUAC6MY","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"IDYSR7WMUBGXPHDQCQTKABBV2I","type":"interstitial_link","content":"Zoo Atlanta announces Ozzie, oldest living male gorilla, has died","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/zoo-atlanta-announces-that-ozzie-oldest-living-male-gorilla-has-died/TFRQGUYYUVEZ3MCVWINDLY55MM/","_id":"5JB74BVG6ZCVTG7CBLK4RDHUWA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689228,"type":"text","content":"Patches had been not only one of the zoo’s largest reptiles, but one of its oldest residents. The zoo didn’t know her exact age, and when the GoPro video was made in 2016, officials said she was about 50 to 60 years old. On Saturday, the zoo estimated she was in her 70s or 80s.","_id":"7ZYFZIUNBVA33ETNNGKKTY32WY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689229,"type":"text","content":"Either way, she died young. Aldabra tortoises, the world’s second-largest tortoise species, can live to be well past 100. They are native to the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of eastern Africa. Their species is classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, meaning they’re threatened with extinction unless conditions change.","_id":"2NN5H4S5AJGF7E5MBMNEOU4LYI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689230,"type":"text","content":"Existential threats to Aldabra tortoises include poaching, climate change and new human settlements, which bring domestic animals that prey on tortoises and compete for food.","_id":"F3OAI7ICVFAC5BVBC5VHWCQLAE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689231,"type":"text","content":"Patches arrived at Zoo Atlanta in 1994, brought there from another zoological organization. Atlanta still has two other Aldabra tortoises, a male named Shuffles and a female named Corky.","_id":"CX6RA5CPLRA2FOFMSIXBUGJECU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1644093689232,"type":"text","content":"A necropsy on Patches will be performed by University of Georgia Zoo and Exotic Animal Pathology Service, the zoo’s news release said."],"display_date":"2022-02-05T21:08:38.253Z","headlines":"basic":"Zoo Atlanta mourns passing of 200-pound, decades-old tortoise Patches","first_publish_date":"2022-02-05T21:08:38.253Z","taxonomy":{"sections":["path":"/news","parent":"default":"https://www.ajc.com/","_website":"ajc","parent_id":"https://www.ajc.com/","name":"News","description":"Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles - Atlanta Journal-Constitution","_id":"/news","additional_properties":"original":"parent":"AmpNav":"https://www.ajc.com/","default":"https://www.ajc.com/","BottomNav":null,"TopNavRedesign":null,"SectionMap":"https://www.ajc.com/","LoggedOutMenu":null,"MainMenuRedesign2021":"https://www.ajc.com/","TopNav":null,"TopicsBar":null,"ComposerNav":"https://www.ajc.com/","site": Top News Page","navigation":"nav_title":"News","inactive":false,"node_type":"section","_website":"ajc","name":"News","Sponsor":"sponsor_url_open_new_tab":"true","sponsor_desktop_banner":"","sponsor_mobile_banner":"","sponsor_url":"","_id":"/news","ancestors":"AmpNav":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"default":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"BottomNav":[],"TopNavRedesign":[],"SectionMap":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"LoggedOutMenu":[],"MainMenuRedesign2021":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"TopicsBar":[],"order":"AmpNav":1001,"default":1001,"SectionMap":1018,"MainMenuRedesign2021":1002,"ComposerNav":1137,"_website_section_id":"ajc./news","type":"section","version":"0.6.0"],"primary_section":"path":"/news","name":"News","tags":["text":"news.naviga","text":"atlanta-news-metro.ajc","text":"lifestyle","text":"things to do","text":"georgia news","text":"ajc top news","text":"intown atlanta","text":"fulton county"]},"type":"story","last_updated_date":"2022-02-06T00:36:56.129Z","promo_items":"basic":"credits":,"subtitle":"Zoo Atlanta tortoise makes tracks","width":1024,"caption":"This 2016 photo shows Patches, an Aldabra tortoise at Zoo Atlanta, outfitted with a GoPro camera to record her walk to her outdoor summer habitat, near the new reptile house. 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The GBI has charged Nakia West with Felony Murder and Aggravated Assault in connection with the death of Annie Josie Chappell.

Authorities in Greenville, VA saw the car from the BOLO related to this investigation and took West into custody.

🔗: https://t.co/dcnbsEOuUk https://t.co/7sqVY0m6bK

— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) February 4, 2022

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He has already been infected with COVID-19 and “wants to protect his health for his partner and children who depend on him.”","_id":"EAXFGE42BRAU3LHNTS3H5ALC2A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778557,"type":"text","content":"CoreCivic, the Nashville-based corrections company that operates Stewart through an agreement with ICE, said this week the detention center is making vaccines and boosters “readily available to all qualified detainees” and educating them about “the benefits of the vaccine from the first day they arrive and are tested for COVID-19.”","_id":"TPSL477WBJGEXKIEKZOJUSLBLU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778550,"type":"text","content":"ICE declined to comment on the ACLU lawsuit. It also declined to respond to questions emailed to the agency about how many of its detainees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, how many have refused vaccinations and how many have been hospitalized because of the disease. Instead, ICE pointed the AJC to its website, which says the safety of its detainees is one of its highest priorities.","_id":"ZHLGUEWX7VCHLB5HLBWLSNNXWQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778551,"type":"text","content":"“ICE continues to incorporate CDC’s COVID-19 guidance, which is built upon the already established infectious disease monitoring and management protocols currently in use by the agency,” ICE’s website says.","_id":"SC3J273B2FBXXOPHXE7XQP7AUI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778552,"type":"text","content":"This is not the first time ICE’s response to the pandemic has come under criticism. On Jan. 26, two whistleblowers who have investigated ICE detention centers on behalf of the Homeland Security Department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties urged the agency to immediately offer detainees COVID-19 booster vaccinations.","_id":"L4722NKI4ZFIFA3ENKBR3VVVX4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778553,"type":"text","content":"“ICE’s failure to implement a plan for providing boosters to detained immigrants is inexplicable in light of available science, government public health recommendations, and their widespread availability,” Drs. Scott Allen and Josiah Rich wrote in their letter, which was made public by the Government Accountability Project. “The failure to act with alacrity has contributed to the number of confirmed COVID cases skyrocketing since the emergence of the omicron variant.”","_id":"OEMYSEBG4NAYHHT3ZJBYG55BBI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778554,"type":"text","content":"Last year, the Homeland Security Department’s Office of the Inspector General reviewed records and surveillance video from nine of ICE’s detention centers, none of which are in Georgia. Among other things, the report the office released in September says ICE’s COVID-19 testing for its staff and detainees was insufficient and that ICE personnel and detainees did not consistently wear face masks or socially distance.","_id":"6O4TGZWR2BGVLLT4BLSPWTVO7M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778555,"type":"text","content":"ICE concurred with the report’s recommendations, while highlighting that it is encouraging its staff and detainees to wear masks and maintain social distancing. ICE also underscored that it is screening newly arriving detainees and isolating those with symptoms associated with COVID-19.","_id":"KEISQIMP35D5ZC5DFFELO664ZI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778556,"type":"text","content":"A majority of the infections at Stewart were detected among detainees as they arrived there, said Matthew Davio, a spokesman for CoreCivic, the company that manages Stewart. As of Wednesday, 134 CoreCivic employees who work at Stewart had recovered from COVID-19, according to the company’s website, and there were six active cases among staff members. The company declined to say whether any of its employees at Stewart have been hospitalized or have died because of the disease.","_id":"JSURJK4HYVGLVIW3YKYQK225VQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778558,"type":"text","content":"Franco Clement, a Liberian immigrant who has been detained at the Stewart since March 2020, said in an interview with the AJC that many fellow detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been held together in a neighboring space. Clement said he didn’t feel adequately protected because the same staff who entered that space also visited his own. He also alleged that new detainees who arrived at the center were not tested for the disease.","_id":"I3EVREC5G5AY7D6WQE3UEN6XDA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778559,"type":"text","content":"“The whole place is contaminated,” said Clement, who suspects ICE is undercounting infections in Stewart. “I’m scared for my life.”","_id":"34KSV3SXUJEJXAYTUIY2EDPN6U","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778560,"type":"text","content":"Detainees have also reported that Stewart has been inconsistent in how it isolates those with COVID-19, said Erin Argueta, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. Some have been separated for 10 days, she said, while others have been allowed to join certain activities.","_id":"4RYZI7RWM5HFFJKY5SW7X7OPNM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778562,"type":"text","content":"In a sworn statement the ACLU shared with the AJC, Stewart detainee Blanca Isabel Rivera Morales said she first asked for a booster in early December and was told it was not available. The 48-year-old woman, who has diabetes and hypertension, received two doses of the Moderna vaccine at Stewart in April and June of 2021.","_id":"NFES2OJUERG5HFVY7EBA3DMROI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778563,"type":"text","content":"On Jan. 12, the same day she submitted a written request for a third shot, she experienced a headache, coughed and suffered from body aches. She told medical personnel about her symptoms but wasn’t given a COVID-19 test. It wasn’t until four days later, when Rivera Morales was feeling worse, that a doctor tested her. The result came back positive.","_id":"MIS5MJ5O7FFNZNASLHTOZLOF7E","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643980778564,"type":"text","content":"“I feel angry and frustrated,” she said. “If Stewart Detention Center had provided me with the booster shot I had requested, it would have reduced my risk of getting COVID-19.”","_id":"AGM6P6JCX5AAZAHQB6CC6NX6HE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643987254475,"type":"text","content":"By the numbers","_id":"CRVJRZMRGZBN7CM65BY2RG4UJU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643987254476,"type":"text","content":"Stewart Detention Center in Southwest Georgia is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections amid the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant. 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Also last year, the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended the license of a lawyer for repeated racist rants on social media prompting dozens of public complaints.","_id":"IQ7Y4OT7SRAHTH2NLJWNCYOZNA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643838157968,"type":"text","content":"For Calhoun, the State Bar will wait until he has his day in court.","_id":"TC6OCUZDRBBUFCAN4CGRN55WBI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643838157969,"type":"text","content":"“Our rules require that the lawyer be convicted before we act because, just like any other person accused of a crime, our system grants defendants a presumption of innocence,” Mason said.","_id":"UQXAQAMOGZAMZI3XMMPYX2YYCE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643818786356,"type":"text","content":"That likely will not come for some time. Last month, Calhoun rejected the prosecution’s plea offer and a trial date has not been set.","_id":"3SETF7BOKZEVTGWVSRQ6DMFFO4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643818786357,"type":"text","content":"“I let the court know on day one that we could resolve this,” Calhoun said. But he said he does not intend to agree to a felony conviction — one that would end his legal career.","_id":"FSTPS6Z55FBYXGOUAP74A4BLIM","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"2BHD7J235RDM5JVZKS6FJJUORQ","type":"divider","_id":"GIARS5WLWNBZ7KMGSX265EMQTA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643853957145,"type":"text","content":"Our Reporting","_id":"4KCCAJOLZFBZHJSJK5WTOR2Z6E","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643845247037,"type":"text","content":"AJC Reporter Chris Joyner has been following the Jan. 6 riots since that violent day at the U.S. Capitol. He has written dozens of stories detailing the sprawling investigation that has led to 17 Georgians getting charged in relation to the insurrection. He has profiled some of the defendants to offer readers insight into Georgian’s role in the riots. 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Police are now working to find the suspect and take him into custody.","_id":"OHVYYGPHEVA7PI6B64CLXBHKZU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643843998165,"type":"text","content":"Lt. Ralph Woolfolk, the Atlanta Police Department’s homicide commander, said a 43-year-old man died from his chest wound. The other victim was rushed to a hospital. His condition was not released.","_id":"ECOXTWVUZZBPXAWBWEPZOQ2S7M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643841278952,"type":"text","content":"Alison Court has been the scene of at least three shootings in the past year in which children were caught in the crosshairs of gun violence.","_id":"AWSEEX2YWNDVNAXN5DHNU63RAI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643843998168,"type":"text","content":"An 8-year-old boy died after being shot Nov. 13 at the Brentwood Heights apartment complex, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported at the time. A 15-year-old boy was shot when a fight broke out on Alison Court near Delowe Drive on Oct. 7. And on May 21, a 10-month-old girl was injured after a stray bullet grazed her foot when shots erupted in the area of Alison Court and Myrtle Street, authorities said.","_id":"RUR4OZZSJBA35EUPXX6JALD5XA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1643841278954,"type":"text","content":"— Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates."],"display_date":"2022-02-02T23:34:52.600Z","headlines":"basic":"Police: Angry tenant fatally shoots construction worker at SW Atlanta apartments","first_publish_date":"2022-02-02T22:45:36.418Z","taxonomy":{"sections":["path":"/news","parent":"default":"https://www.ajc.com/","_website":"ajc","parent_id":"https://www.ajc.com/","name":"News","description":"Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles - Atlanta Journal-Constitution","_id":"/news","additional_properties":"original":"parent":"AmpNav":"https://www.ajc.com/","default":"https://www.ajc.com/","BottomNav":null,"TopNavRedesign":null,"SectionMap":"https://www.ajc.com/","LoggedOutMenu":null,"MainMenuRedesign2021":"https://www.ajc.com/","TopNav":null,"TopicsBar":null,"ComposerNav":"https://www.ajc.com/","site": Top News Page","navigation":"nav_title":"News","inactive":false,"node_type":"section","_website":"ajc","name":"News","Sponsor":"sponsor_url_open_new_tab":"true","sponsor_desktop_banner":"","sponsor_mobile_banner":"","sponsor_url":"","_id":"/news","ancestors":"AmpNav":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"default":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"BottomNav":[],"TopNavRedesign":[],"SectionMap":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"LoggedOutMenu":[],"MainMenuRedesign2021":["https://www.ajc.com/"],"TopicsBar":[],"order":"AmpNav":1001,"default":1001,"SectionMap":1018,"MainMenuRedesign2021":1002,"ComposerNav":1137,"_website_section_id":"ajc./news","type":"section","version":"0.6.0","path":"/news/crime","parent":"default":"/news","_website":"ajc","parent_id":"/news","name":"Crime & Public Safety","description":"Crime in Atlanta: News and issues about crime, criminals, police and personal security in metro Atlanta. 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