The lonely death of George the tortoise, the last of his kind – News from France

Publication Date 25 June 2012

cur-game | Monday, June 25, 2012

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Lonesome George in 2008, his enclosure of the Galapagos National Park. | Photo Guillermo Granja / Reuters

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“Lonesome George” was the last representative of the species of giant tortoises Chelonoidis abingdonii. The animal died Sunday in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Thus goes a species. “Lonesome George”, an old turtle than a hundred years, died Sunday in the archipelago of the Galapagos Islands, this sanctuary of biodiversity located 1000 miles off Ecuador. It was the last representative of the species Chelonoidis abingdonii.

George was discovered in 1972 on the tiny island of Pinta. Since then, several breeding attempts had been incurred. For years, scientists have tried to find females may breed with George. Many who had rubbed shoulders were still skeptical: the animal had never shown any particular appetite for reproduction and perhaps even he knew not how.

The lonely death of George the tortoise, the last of his kind News from France

George was found dead Sunday (Photo: Directorate of the Galapagos Park / Reuters)

In 2008, Lonesome George had impressed those who watched over him. After 36 years in captivity in sexual indifference, the giant tortoise had copulated with one of two females entered his enclosure. Eggs were found and carefully placed in incubators. But the eggs were found to be infertile. A later attempt in 2009 will fail for the same reasons.

including observing congeners George Charles Darwin conceived his theory of evolution in the nineteenth century. In 2006, an animal thought to have been reduced by the scientific Galapagos aboard the “HMS Beagle” in 1835 had died in Australia at the age of 176 years. Today, the giant tortoises of the archipelago, although protected, are threatened in their natural habitat by alien species introduced by humans, such as goats, who enjoy the same herbs that also feed on turtles .

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