Arete Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Yesterday was a sad day for science, as Lonesome George, the last known member of Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni - The Pinta Island giant tortoise dies, marking the extinction of the species. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18574279 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantheory Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I hope and expect that they have some good clonable DNA material stored if they wish to someday try to bring back his species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appolinaria Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) I blame the goats. (joking) Just read that they could live for a year or more without food or water, so fishermen kept them on boats for fresh meat without any expense to care for them. That's disgusting. Edited June 28, 2012 by Appolinaria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantheory Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) I blame the goats. (joking) Just read that they could live for a year or more without food or water, so fishermen kept them on boats for fresh meat without any expense to care for them. That's disgusting. Yup, pretty sad concerning cruelty to animals Islands goats probably competed for their habitat ? If so there's lots of other bad things happening that also need scape goats Edited June 28, 2012 by pantheory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedgen Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I blame the goats. (joking) Just read that they could live for a year or more without food or water, so fishermen kept them on boats for fresh meat without any expense to care for them. That's disgusting. Yeah, apparently in the early days they were literally "stacked" on board the ships. Not always pleasant reading from those times. Have to visit them at the Zoo this summer. They are magnificent animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space noob Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Not lonesome george!If he was the last giant tortoise doesn't that mean that things were screwed when the last "female" giant tortoise died, the first time explorers from England (my country) found these giant tortoises, they put a huge bunch on the boat to be named when they got back to England, after this this attempt it took 100+ years to name the giant tortoise because sadly, none of the specimens made it back to England, it turned out that they are extremely tasty and after eating them all, they had lots of fresh naturally filtered water left over in their shells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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