Lonesome George

 LONESOME George travel bug back in action (3`rd time) ...after been stolen from Dublin Travel Bug Hotel (1) and was never relased by some cacher (2) . Third time lucky ? ....enjoy travel the World. Maybe see Oceans ... and maybe reach Galapagos Islands. After that I will call you back home to Ireland. Good Luck! 

LONESOME George travel bug in memory of real LONESOME George (read description please)

LONESOME George, was the last remaining giant tortoise of his kind who confounded scientists with his inability to produce offspring. He died in June 2012

The tortoise, known as the “Galapagos’ most eligible bachelor”, was notorious for his disinterest in the opposite sex and was believed to have been the last of the Geochelone abigdoni species.
Understood to be around 100 years old.

He had no known descendents, after repeated attempts to persuade him to mate with females of a similar tortoise subspecies failed. Known as the “rarest creature in the world”.

Lonesome George has become a cause célèbre for conservationists around the world since he was found in 1972, the last known member of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies (Geochelone nigra abingdoni).

He went on to become a symbol of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, which attracted some 180,000 visitors last year.

George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos, the Galapagos National Park said.

The giant Galapagos tortoises, which can live up to 200 years old, were among the species that helped Charles Darwin  formulate his theory of evolution in the 19th century. 

Scientists had been trying to get George to mate since 1993, when they introduced two female tortoises of a different subspecies into his pen. They laid eggs twice, but they were infertile.

The pen where George lived was visited by thousands of tourists every year, who often had to scramble with each other to take pictures of one of the rarest creatures on Earth.

Some 20,000 giant tortoises still live on the Galapagos. ....