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Life after the Two Oceans Aquarium: keeping tabs on a famous freed turtle

The imagined adventures of Yoshi, loggerhead turtle and former resident of a Cape Town predator tank

09 February 2020 - 00:00 By and darrel bristow-bovey

I've met Yoshi a couple of times, but the last time was perhaps 10 years ago. I was very close to a couple of very young girls - they must have been five or six then - and much of my life was spent trying to impress them...

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