Comments on: Can We Save the Last Tortoise From Becoming Extinct?

By: sam

sam — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:49:39 +0000

I am sad because i visited lonesome George and the guide said the eggs did not make it. He has two females but is not very interested in them.haha

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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:24:23 +0000

Damn. This is such a terrible article. I want to just kill these tortoises. My friend who’s grandfather ate a tortoise, said it was one of the best thing he ever tasted. VEgeterian , I would gladly take his share.

By: Person who Rana Sinha disagrees with. You are contradicting yourself in the last sentence. I believe you were purposely misleading the people who read your thingy-mabobber. I really dislike you.

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:23:12 +0000

Mentioned in my name .

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:37:04 +0000

I want to drink its urine!
Good article! (I cant spell)
How many of those tortoises really exist?
(I would like to know).
I want to seen a picture of tortoises from the triassic age!

By: Rana Sinha

Rana Sinha — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:16:43 +0000

Thanks everyone for your gracious comments.
‘Person’ – I stand chastised for not mentioning the name of the subspecies ‘Lonesome George’ belongs to and the other subspecies. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. It is true that 15 000 tortoises are alive, but they are not of the same subspecies as Lonesome George.

Experts disagree on whether there were twelve or fifteen Galapagos Tortoises but eleven have survived. Lonesome George belongs to subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni, one of eleven subspecies found on Galapagos Island according to Henry Nicholls – http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/henry/

I took the age of the earth as 4,5 billion years from the US Geological survey site http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html Compared to that and considering the number of major extinction level events, humans haven’t been around for long and our ability to alter creation in the bigger picture is rather puny though we seem to be doing a great job with our traffic and industrial pollution.

By: Person

Person — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:07:56 +0000

Well, your first paragraph was pretty misleading, because the Earth was made 2.6 billion years ago. Lots of things have lived on it. Do you expect all of the to survive? THat “99.9%” statistic does not make sense, comparing it to how long humans have lived on Earth. Then, you need to take into account that not until possibly several centuries ago until we seriously inflicted damage to the habitats of animals.

There are 14 different freaking species of Galapagos Tortoises. 3 are extinct. Lonesome George is the last one of ONE of the 14, and there are still relatively many more. They are enlisted as endangered, because there are under 15,000 left, OVERALL. Your post sucks, but for people who don’t know the facts, it’s awesome. Pure awesome.

By: garminz

garminz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:01:11 +0000

I would like to buy one.

By: brandon225

brandon225 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:07:16 +0000

wow the most rare animal amazing he has a long life line and has good health so if they dont hatch they can always try again.

By: Melody Arcamo Lagrimas

Melody Arcamo Lagrimas — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:20:37 +0000

Interesting and very informative.

By: Deena

Deena — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:02:23 +0000

Interesting. Hope that babies is born.