Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario George or Jorge, c. 1910 – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii) and the last...
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Pinta Island tortoise (section Lonesome George)
were made to mate the male, named Lonesome George, with other subspecies, but no viable eggs resulted. Lonesome George died on 24 June 2012, and the subspecies...
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Press Secretary - Definition & History". Retrieved October 15, 2017. "Lonesome George". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20. Harris, John F. (1996-05-26)...
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called "Lonesome George". The crew later appeared on Gobel's primetime television show and recounted the 45-hour-and-19-minute mission. Lonesome George, the...
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malacologist József Vágvölgyi spotted Lonesome George on the Galapagos island of Pinta on 1 December 1971. Since then, Lonesome George has been a powerful symbol...
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a single known living individual, kept in captivity and nicknamed Lonesome George until his death in June 2012. Two other subspecies, C. n. niger (the...
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"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (sometimes stylized as Are You Lonesome To-night?) is a song written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926. It was recorded several...
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livestock reduced the population to one individual. On 24 June 2012, Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii)...
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to as "George" George (dog), a Jack Russell Terrier who defended children from a two-dog attack George (lobster) George (snail) Lonesome George, the last...
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Hawaii at Manoa, was named George, after Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise that was also the last of its kind. George's parents were collected from...
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