Crime surveillance, food assistance, an 83-foot Christmas tree – they’re all being paid for by an increasingly influential coalition of San Francisco billionaires.

But now Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise, has eaten her last cactus fruit, the San Diego Zoo reported. She arrived in San Diego between 1928 and 1931, the zoo said, when she was roughly in her 40s. The zoo’s best guess is that she was 141 when she died on Thursday.

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Gramma the tortoise, believed to be 141 years old and the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, was euthanized after suffering from progressive bone deterioration because of her age.

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