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Famed Galapagos tortoise dies at around 100
QUITO: The giant tortoise Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to produce offspring made him a symbol of disappearing species, was found dead on Sunday, officials at the Galapagos National Park announced.
Lonesome George walks in his protected home in the Puerto Ayora island chain in 2001.
Lonesome George was believed to be the last living member of the Pinta island subspecies and had become an ambassador of sorts for the islands off Ecuador’s coast whose unique flora and fauna helped inspire Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution.
The tortoise’s age was not known but scientists believed he was about 100, not especially old for giant tortoises, who can live well over a century. Scientists had expected him to live another few decades at least.
Various mates had been provided for Lonesome George after he was found in 1972 in what proved unsuccessful attempts to keep his subspecies alive.
He lived at a tortoise breeding centre on the archipelago’s island of Santa Cruz. He was found on Sunday morning in his pen by his longtime keeper, Fausto Llerena, the park said in a statement.
Attempts were initially made to mate Lonesome George with two female tortoises from Wolf Volcano. But the eggs they produced were infertile.
Two females from Spanish island’s tortoise population, the species most closely related to Pinta tortoises, were placed with him last year.
The park said the cause of his death would be investigated.
(Bangkok Post JUNE 26 ,2012)

เต่ากาลาปากอสที่มีชื่อเสียงตายอายุประมาณ 100 เต่ายักษ์ Lonesome George (จอร์จผู้โดดเดี่ยว) มันไม่สามารถที่จะผลิตลูกหลานได้ ทำให้เป็นสัตว์ที่ใกล้จะสูญพันธ์ ได้ตายแล้วเมื่อวันอาทิตย์ เจ้าหน้าที่อุทยานแห่งชาติของเกาะกาลาปากอส กล่าวว่า Lonesome George ถูกเชื่อว่าเป็นสมาชิกที่อาศัยอยู่ตัวสุดท้ายของเกาะ Pinta และได้กลายเป็นของแปลกสำหรับหมู่เกาะนอกชายฝั่งเอกวาดอร์มีเพืชและสัตว์หลายชนิดที่ช่วยสร้างแรงบันดาลใจให้กับ ชาร์ลส์ดาร์วินในเรื่องวิวัฒนาการของสิ่งมีชีวิต

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