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Tortoise 'survives in locked store room for 30 years' - Telegraph
Manuela disappeared from her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982 and despite a lengthy search was never seen again.
Her owners, the Almeida family, assumed she had run away after builders working on the house left the front door open.
It was only after their father Leonel died earlier this month that the Almeida children began clearing out a second-floor room in the house that he had filled with broken electrical items and always kept locked.
Leonel's son Leandro said he was astonished to find Manuela alive inside a box containing an old record player.
Manuela may have survived by eating termites from the wooden floor.
Manuela disappeared from her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982 and despite a lengthy search was never seen again.
Her owners, the Almeida family, assumed she had run away after builders working on the house left the front door open.
It was only after their father Leonel died earlier this month that the Almeida children began clearing out a second-floor room in the house that he had filled with broken electrical items and always kept locked.
Leonel's son Leandro said he was astonished to find Manuela alive inside a box containing an old record player.
Manuela may have survived by eating termites from the wooden floor.
