Lonesome George, the last surviving Pinta giant tortoise, (Geochelone nigra abingdoni) on Santa Cruz. He died on June 24, 2012. putneymark, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Despite their resilience ...
Lonesome George, the last surviving Pinta giant tortoise, (Geochelone nigra abingdoni) on Santa Cruz. He died on June 24, 2012. putneymark, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Despite their resilience ...
a different type of Galapagos giant tortoise, who had refused for years to breed in captivity. Hopes for his species, Chelonoidis abingdoni, faded when Lonesome George died.
Environmentalists had believed his subspecies (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni) had become extinct. Lonesome George became part of the Galapagos National Park breeding program. After 15 years of ...
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