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This 100-year-old Has About 900 Children

DeStrider April 1, 2024, 8:29am #1

In fact he saved his whole species from extinction.

en.wikipedia.org

Diego (tortoise)

Diego is a Hood Island giant tortoise. Thought to have been hatched on Española Island, Galápagos, he was captured as a young adult and shipped to the United States where he was exhibited at zoos. By the late 1940s he was at San Diego Zoo, California, though his species was not known. A captive breeding effort for the critically endangered Hood Island tortoises was set up in 1976, by which time only 15 individuals were known to survive. Diego was identified as a Hood Island tortoise by DNA t...

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