Heartwarming Moment: 70-Year-Old Mother Turtle Rejoices at the Sight of Her Eight Newly Hatched Babies After a Decade of Waiting ‎

A 70-year-old giant tortoise in ‘peak physical condition’ has fathered a whopping eight baby Giant Galapagos tortoises.

Dirk, named after porn star Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights, mated with three females he shares a pen with in Crocodiles of the World in Oxfordshire

The arrival of the eight babies at Crocodiles of the World in Brize Norton is a huge boost to the conservation status of the giant Galapogos tortoise which is an endangered species

Charlie then laid two more eggs fertilised by Dirk, who is said to be in peak physical condition, and these have recently hatched.