Rai is crunching and munching away on World Turtle Day! 🐢 In celebration of World Turtle Day, meet Rai, one of the radiated tortoises that calls Jack Hanna’s Animal Encounters Village home. When Rai first arrived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, he came with two other radiated tortoises like himself, Dia and Ted. Together, the three of their names together made up the world “radiated,” named after their species. Radiated tortoises are native to the forests and scrublands of Madagascar and are

Sound up for some seriously adorable turtle crunching ASMR! 🔊🥬 Feeding devices are used in our yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle habitat to mimic the food availability experienced by these turtles in the rivers of South America. 🐢 These turtles are primarily herbivorous and eat a range of fruit, vegetable and plant material. The feeders act as important enrichment by offering this variety of food for grazing throughout the day, imitating the vegetation that falls or overhangs into their natu