Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his specie retires

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Diego, the giant Galápagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, has been put out to pasture on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador’s environment minister said.

“We are closing an important chapter” in the management of the park, minister Paulo Proano said on Twitter, adding that 25 tortoises including the prolific Diego “are going back home after decades of reproducing in captivity and saving their species from extinction”.

Diego weighs about 80kg (175 pounds), is nearly 90cm (35 inches) long and 1.5 meters (five feet) tall, if he stretches his legs and neck.

Diego’s contribution to the program on Santa Cruz Island was particularly noteworthy, with park rangers believing him responsible for being the patriarch of at least 40% of the 2,000-tortoise population.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires

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DADDY  

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Wow. Then in hundreds or thousands of years a DNA study will find the entire species has a common male ancestor

 

Don't they believe based on gene studies that most likely all humans share a single common African Woman as a far back ancestor? Maybe something simmilar happened. We were close to extinction and this woman kept popping out babies 

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Nb4 "Is Diego A Hunty" threads 

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Oh he is back, we love a King!