Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 06, 2000
March 04, 2000
March 07, 2000
Transcript:
Believe It or Not! At the University of Alberta, Canada, there is a fourth year English course called Reading Oprah, dedicated to the American talk show host Oprah Winfrey! Lonesome George, a giant pinto tortoise living in the Galapagos Islands, is the only one of his species left in the entire world! One is the loneliest number...
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George has since passed, however I visited the islands a few years ago & they have 2 females being kept apart from other males on the off chance they may still get pregnant. The hope us they will have stored the sperm for future use in which case 1/2 his dna will still be ‘out there’.