Mr. Pickles has been a resident of the Houston Zoo for the past 36 years, and partnered up with Mrs. Pickles since she arrived in 1996.
According to, a herpetology keeper noticed Mr. Pickles' longtime"companion," 53-year-old Mrs. Pickles, as she was laying the three eggs near closing time.
Jalapeño, the farthest to the right, has the darkest shell of the three hatchlings. Dill and Gherkin have lighter shells, but Gherkin has a white dot marked on the center of its shell."The soil in Houston isn’t hospitable to the Madagascar native tortoises, and it’s unlikely the eggs would have hatched on their own if the keeper hadn’t been in the right place at the right time," the zoo explains in the blog post.
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