Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday, November 23 2009, 13:58 GMT
By Mayer Nissim, Entertainment Reporter

Zookepers in the US have learned that a tortoise they thought was female for over half a century is really male.

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo spokesman Tom O’Konowitz confirmed that the creature, previously known as Mary, has now been renamed Terry, The Chronicle-Telegram reports

O’Konowitz said: “This is certainly a first for us. It came as something of a surprise to finally figure out Mary’s right identity. It took us 55 years to finally say she’s a boy.

“With some species like elephants, gorillas and rhinos, it’s very obvious whether you’re dealing with a male or female.”

He added that staff had assumed the tortoise was female because it had a flat shell, small tail and was the smallest of a batch of three that arrived from Aldabra Island off the east coast of Africa in 1955.

O’Konowitz clarified that large tortoises’ reproductive organs are not usually visible during examinations, but in this case “became visible to the staff”.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a188210/mary-the-tortoise-is-really-male.html

See also: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Zookeepers_get_tortoise_sex_surprise&in_article_id=775666&in_page_id=2

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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Monday March 10th, 2008 Writer and pilot Don Ledger discussed Canadian UFO sightings including the Shag Harbour Incident of 1967. In his book Maritime UFO Files, he documents 135 of the best UFO cases from the east coast of Canada dating as far back as 1796. The 1796 episode took place in Nova Scotia where three witnesses reported seeing 15 ships in a line traveling across the sky. In the Bell Isl…

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