Longest Resident at Zoo Dies
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PrintThe National Zoological Park's longest tenured resident, "Pigface" a Nile soft-shelled turtle, died on October 21, 1993. He was aquired by former director William Mann on a research expedition to Liberia, and arrived at the Zoo in 1940. The turtle was one of the few inhabitants of the Reptile House to play with an object. He had a basketball he pushed through the water by bumping it with his nose.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, "The Torch," January 1994, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 21, 1993