Saturday 9 April 2011

Rarest Animal in The World


The Pinta Island tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni) is labelled as the rarest animal in the world. The only survivor is a 90 years old male.
“Oh my God! That’s so old!” You say? Not really. Tortoises can live up to 150 years old =) The survivor’s name is ‘Lonesome George’. George was first seen on the island of Pinta on 1 December 1971. The island's vegetation was destroyed by the introduced feral goats.

George was penned with two females of a different subspecies, but although eggs have been produced, none of it hatched yet. Imagine being the only one of your kind on the whole existence and have nobody you can talk to. Anyway, you’ll get a reward of $10,000 if you find a Pinta Island female. (Personally, I would give more but that’s just me) You’ll also get my gratitude for saving this beautiful creature so that they can walk on earth again with each other =3

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