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Stolen tortoises FILE PHOTO: A Florida zoo is looking for 2 Galapagos tortoises that they said were stolen. (Nils Kahle 4FR-Photography/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

December 01, 2022 astatine 2:00 p.m. EST

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is trying to find 2 of its animals.

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Zoo officials said that 2 Galapagos tortoises were stolen connected Nov. 30, but did not accidental however they were taken, WJAX reported.

Officials are besides watching hours of video surveillance to spot who took the animals.

The animals had been astatine the zoo since 2017 arsenic portion of a captive breeding program.

Galapagos tortoises are fixed a peculiar fare and supplements and cannot beryllium near extracurricular astatine nighttime erstwhile the upwind is cool, truthful zoo officials are acrophobic astir the information of the juvenile reptiles.

They besides cannot beryllium legally sold, WJAX reported.

The tortoises person been microchipped, but the zoo is inactive asking for help, saying if anyone has brought location a large, achromatic tortoise, to interaction the St. Augustine Police Department astatine 904-825-1070.