{"id":12497,"date":"2012-06-24T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2012-06-24T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:24:07","slug":"lonesome-george-c-1912-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/lonesome-george-c-1912-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonesome George c. 1912-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/24\/us-ecuador-tortoise-idUSBRE85N0PI20120624\">It has just been reported<\/a> that Lonesome George, the Galapagos Tortoise who was considered to be the last of is kind, has died.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Lonesome George was found in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador&#8217;s Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning the park ranger in charge of looking after the tortoises found Lonesome George, his body was motionless,&#8221; the head of the Galapagos National Park, Edwin Naula, told Reuters. &#8220;His life cycle came to an end.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George is not the last of a species, but he is the last of a subspecies.  A necropsy will be performed to try to determine a cause of death.  George, roughly a century old, was not particularly old for his kind.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Charles Darwin dies in 1882.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doridelsarto\/6284395614\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\">doriana del sarto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has just been reported that Lonesome George, the Galapagos Tortoise who was considered to be the last of is kind, has died. the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old. Lonesome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/lonesome-george-c-1912-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lonesome George c. 1912-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}