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BBC wildlife show 'Lonesome George and the Battle to Save Galapagos' explores the issues that surround the co-existence of human and animal populations on the environmentally precious Galapagos islands and introduces the island's special celebrity Lonesome George; the only pinter island giant tortoise in existence.
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R.I.P. Sir George
could we clone the pinta tortoise
He will be missed
Rip
George Floyd too..
Incredibly sad when any species goes extinct, it breaks my heart.
STOP Grow up buddy.
ejmac11 I'm not the one crying over an insignificant species
STOP No species is insignificant.
ejmac11 sure, pal
+ejmac11 Humans are insignificant too, this planet is insignificant. We are nothing but a speck of dust in the universe. We will become extinct one day too, sooner than later if we don't stop all this consumerism, overpopulation, and pollution. But does it really matter in the long run? no. Nature will regenerate itself and go on, with new species as it has before, until the sun "dies" in 5 billion years.
RIP Lonesome George ;(
Let that absorb in your mind for a second. Being the last of your people. Imagine being the last human in existence in an alien world. Pretty deep isn't it?
And then imagine you hear knocking on your door
Bob Jones I think aliens can knock on doors
To be more accurate, you'd have to be the last one of your race. Imagine being the last white guy on the planet. lololol.
HilariousPoo Being the last white guy on the planet wouldn't make you the last of your kind. You are of the Human race. Consider a Labrador Retriever, no matter if it's a black lab or chocolate or yellow or silver or whatever, it's still a Labrador Retriever.
MrEsmerKing Oh, thanks for correcting me!
Imagine being that last of your kind. Idk how I'd feel or what I'd do.
Joshua Howland
What's even worse about that is you wouldn't know you're the last of your kind.
Joshua Howland you would feel depress and you would do nothing.
***** Damn.. what a shame.
poopnuggets Yeah that's most accurate.
Joshua Howland
Unfortunatly Lonesome George has passed away, effectively meaning this species is extinct :(
+Tsavorite Prince Why did they go instinct?
probably the 30k people moving in on his island.
I thought only his race went extinct, not the entire species 0.o?
This wouldn't of happened if humans didn't migrate to different islands x-x
+SRRN Insect
It wouldn't have happened if tortoises were good enough at adapting to changes in their environment, such as the sudden introduction of a new species.
It's survival of the fittest.
the last 10 seconds made my heart unbearable
you think thats sad? scientist believe there is 1 whale who produces its noise at such a high frequency or low, i cant remember, that no other whale can even pick it up. so there's a whale out there that cant even communicate with anyone else of his/her own species.
You speak of the 52-hertz whale. It sings at a higher frequency than any other whale, at 52-hertz. However it's a misguided idea that other whales can't hear him. It is assumed that because he sings at a higher range that to other whales would be deaf to it, but that isn't so. They'll be able to hear it just fine, it just wont he at a call they normally use.
I thought this video was about me, but this poor tortoise has me beat
He kept the name of his species alive...rest in peace you beautiful creature
I've seen George in person, years ago when I was still a teen; I visited those islands, like stepping back in time... I remember being told even then that they'd tried to mate him with other closely related species of giant tortoise, but he just wouldn't. I can't believe after all these years he's still alive; but I still wonder if even a reptile can feel the loneliness of being the last of it's kind. It didn't seem to bother him while he ate his breakfast that morning!
The end *LITERALLY BROKE MY HEART*. He looked so sad.
He did in 2011, rest easy soldier! 🕊
Thank you George. I hope you've now met others like you on the other side now and aren't lonely anymore. Thank you to the man who cared and fed you for 40 years. I cannot imagine how much his heart must be broken over George dying, so wish him well.
I can't imagine this comment only got four likes (Including my own) in ten years?
I gave him one
Such beautiful nature this turtle has about him.
RIP Lonesome George, you were a true homie.
RIP little fella im sure your in a happier place now
No, he literally isn't.
R.I.P. dear animal :( He died last year.
2 years ago.
R.I.P Lonesome George
+Rossoneri King 420 never 5 get
R.I.P Lonesome George
(1910 - June 24, 2012)
I came to watch again 10 years after hos passing, rest in peace my friend
Oh how heartbreaking. How could they let people live there?! I remember learning about the Galapagos in school when I was young, and no one lived there besides the wildlife at that time. It is horrible how it's no longer a perfect place. When do we stop?!
I’m from Ecuador and it’s not that simple to live there is actually imposible you can just live there just if your granparents or parents are from there and also for travel and visit they have lots of rules for the animals such as don’t touch and also before enter to Galapagos in the airport the problem is the US army that absolute needed to put a base in an island in the Cold War and that island was the island of the gigantic turtles so yeah that sucks
Lonesome George looks like Master Oogway :) Bless him, I just want to give him a big hug :(
This is making me depressed and I feel sad for this poor creature
The only thing that could make me cry...
1:03 he was gona pee on that Tortoise
yeah that's what it looked like.
That's why i hate kids, i really wanna beat the hell outta people who don't teach their kids how to respect others(universally).
@@IDMYM8 i despise idiots like you.
@@sillygoose635 says the one that responded to a 3 year old comment
I thought that too
That's so sad.
I actually teared up a little.
George, stay strong! Even though you're lonely where you are, everyone EVERYWHERE else knows who you are and would be glad to be your frind ^^
That ending actually made me sad. Poor George, and poor other extinct animals and soon-to-be-extinct animals.
Today, August 24, 2022 , I search this video with curiosity in order to understand the greatest story of Lonesome George. Now, I could feel the loneliness of him, just like how I realize the sorrow of loneliness in my daily life.
At 1.04 is a kid about to piss on a tortoise .I hope his parents are so proud of him
I was combing through the comments to see if anyone else noticed.
+Frisky Two-Times I don't think so, he's up to no good
How on Earth do you all know FOR SURE he was going to do that? All he did was hold his top!
I hope the tortoise bites him :)
+Gey your username foreshadows your comment
Just imagine you're the only human on earth, very scary and sad
Ahh, the miracle of human beings. And thank goodness there is so many of them! (sarcasm)
The human plague has infected Galapagos Islands. What's next, Antarctica?
AG There are no permanent inhabitants in Antarctica..
Landon Luman
I know, that's why I said what's next.
But it will inevitably happen when Antarctica's climate warms up enough to be tolerable.
AG 1: That's not gonna happen any time soon. Antarctica has been frozen over for 15 million years, and not once in that time became warm enough for terrestrial habitation. I'm pretty sure no amount of man-made greenhouse gases would be able heat the world fast enough to allow humans to colonize it.
2: Even if it did, the world still be fine. The poles have only had ice caps on them for 35 million years, and yet, terrestrial life has existed for hundreds of millions of years. Even if the ice caps melt, there will still be enough land for large animals to exist. After all, some of the largest terrestrial life-forms ever known evolved during a WARMING PERIOD.
3: "Human plague". HA!! That's adorable. It's ironic how people like preach about how humanity is nothing more than an infestation, and yet you people seem to forget that you're PART of that very infestation. If that's how you really feel about your own species, then why don't you and your buddies just eliminate yourselves from the equation? Oh, that's right, because people like you also subscribe to the notion that "Everyone's a filthy parasite EXCEPT FOR ME, 'cause I'm perfect!!!".
+TalenkauenTV roasted him hard
TalenkauenTV
You're putting words in my mouth. Whether it ever happens or not, if Antarctica was warm enough, humans would colonize it. Yes, I'm part of humanity, but I'm not actively supporting the destruction of wildlife habitats - or denying that overpopulation and climate change will be a major problem in the near future. Nor am I some ignorant, arrogant, low-life who thinks humans are entitled to do whatever they want.
Aww poor Lonesome George. It saddens me to see him be the last of his kind and over 100 years old. :(
Can you imagine a life like that?
Very sad
We do it to our own grandmas with retirement homes. Yet I still feel sadder for this Turtle.
Wow this video made me really sad. Rest in peace George you will always be in my heart like a brother.
sending you a hug Lonesome George.... you're beautiful
I am glad to find this video, thank you for sharing what other wise I would have not known, what a magnificant specimen.
Sad . . . . . what have we done 😧
louisanna30 too late to fix what we've done atleast for this species anyway
louisanna30 sailors ate them when they discovered that they 1. taste better than any food available and 2. store vast amounts of water that is retained in them for months so they where walking refrigerators of food and water
Precious. Absolutely precious.
This puts tears into my face ;-(
>I'm the last of my kind. We've lived in these hills for a thousand years!
>You eat babies!
+Anton D
But babies are so delicious!
ah that moment , always breaks my heart.
+Anton D WE EAT BARRIES!!
green arrow memeing on UA-cam.
not doing it correctly.
What's the reference? Tell me!
After 15 years of living with a female tortoise from the nearby Wolf volcano, Lonesome George did mate, but the eggs were infertile.
He also shared his corral with female tortoises from Espanola island, which are genetically closer to him than those from Wolf volcano, but Lonesome George failed to mate with them.
love this place where both human beings and animals dwell together.
I got teary-eyed when I saw the video..I wanted to hug George..
Ahh, the golden sub button.
Blue
Footed
Boobie
Best animal name _ever_.
What a beauty…
R.I.P. George. At least you're not alone anymore.
Did anyone else see that kid that was about to pee on the tortoise at 1:04?
I think he was cute.
RIP George :(
RIP George
Know it sounds bad but the humans have to cut population right down
Yes.
Kill the westerners. They represent 18% percent of the World's population (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria), but they consume more than 55% of the oil extracted and refined each year.
Imagine a world without westerners. We could have peace in the world and we would stop global warming.
So I agree, let's kill all Westerners.
KeillaSellay Oh really, kill the one group of people that are fighting for conservation and preservation of wildlife and rainforests? As opposed to say Asians who drive the market for rhino horns, elephant tusks and shark fins causing mass extinctions. Or the South Americans who are deforesting the Amazon for farmland and lunber. Or how's about Africans that encroaching upon and destroying wildlife habitats for farmland or diamonds? Yeah let's do that so the rest of the plant can be made into desolate lifeless planet you clueless genocide advocating twat/ troll.
KeillaSellay Who said anything about killing? If every couple agrees to have no more than 2 children we would already stop increase in population. Too bad many people on the planet are either religious, too poor for anticonception, or egoïstic, you name it.. and this causes the increase which pretty much destroys the planet and all of it's wildlife. A sad thing..
The420kingchronic I will have to reply to you here. "Paying"? you know, money doesnt produce oil, nor natural resources. I mean, you could pay for all the resources of the world, but thats just gonna "kill" the world, and thats pretty much whats happening because they think that money is the answer to everything. I am not saying it is their fault, being a poor or rich country means nothing even tho it is confirmated that 1st world countries consume a lot more, thats pretty logical, but i dont think money will save us when the whole world become a shithole, a literal one.
KeillaSellay what about china? they're not poor anymore and they're richer than some european countries
Awhh..
This is totally heartbreaking..
he's the doctor he just regenerated
omg like finn....
OMG I love your music 😍😍
Mille Grazie! {Thank you very much!}
who allowed them to move there
+xinglin jiang You speak Spanish you're Mexican.. we all know what Mexicans doooo
Nobody that's just how humans work... They want something and they go out an get it!
+George Rodriguez All animal kingdom works taht way. The difference is , that humans have not any natural depredator. Almost any animal can kill a human in nature, but not in society. There is a lot of animals who, for example, steal other species homes, or eat their babies, etc. We are ashame of these kind of behavior, because we have empathy, thats all.
@xinglin jiang nobody. they decided to move in before china claims it.
Peta investigation: Galapo's secret lizard meat factory
this is heartbreaking
We will never forget George
sooooooooooooooooo sad!
this is why I can't stand Human arrogance and ego.. MY land my world I can destroy it (including myself) I have no faith in the future...
Good for you! The future says Hi btw. :3
Faith, is a codeword for, I'm to lazy to do anything about it so I believe in supernatural bullshit to do all the work, so I then feel satisfied as if I actually did something helpful.
Its the way animals evolve. its just a pity that we killed them to extinction.
Death to the Humans!
RIP George. i always wanted to meet him :(
Thank you .
I agree! Take his DNA and clone him!
How would that do any good? It would have the exact same DNA as him, which really doesn't increase the population if one is a clone. Also, he's dead.
Caseyf9andpinkpony They're planning to bring back a Thylacine with a preserved fetus, bring back a passenger pigeon with a specimen and a wooly mammoth with a frozen baby they found. They've already cloned and brought back a gastric brooding frog. Lonesome George only died in 2012 so there's still hope.
i wish we could have perfected it on time before he died so he can see his own kind right before his eyes again.
why? for your own vanity? let them go gracefully
they didn't go gracefully if it weren't for us they would still be roaming
Don't worry. We're only a few years from perfecting exogenesis. Then we can clone some more.
You do know that the tortoise has been dead for around 4 years now right?
DNA survives up to 200,000 years just in nature. We have a catalog of every animal DNA that's existed in the last two centuries.
Including the Thylacine and the Dodo Bird.
One day, you'll be taking your children, or your grandchildren to a Zoo and seeing the Mammoths will be as common as seeing the parrots or the chimpanzees.
You mean 200 millennia right
I don't know what you mean. It's the same amount of time, either way.
but if the animal decomposes then there is non usable dna D:
R.I.P George
Wow, This is Amazing.
The last of his Kind.
The loneliest animal in the world is the 52 Hertz Whale
pause at 2:06 look at the right side with the branches youll see something moving its just like him/her
wow, seriously, what is it?
You need extremely good eyes to spot it.I can't tell what it is.
MABELLLLLL SE TE VE ARRUINADAAAAA SERA POR EL ESCABIOO
If you keep looking at it, it's just a pile of rocks. But it does look like another turtle.
I saw it also during my 1st view of the video. i guess its just another type of tortoise, maybe as old as him.
my heart shattered at the last part😢
What a shame, such a beautiful creature
I hope they saved his gens and dna to clone his spiecies later on
what for? for you to enjoy?
idk id try a bite
I should be on this list.
You beat me to the punch, Burpee!
Gah! Was going to say some similar
Thank you...
RIP lonseonme George :( we will always miss you
I thought this video was going to be about me
firdt george. then harambe. who is next? lucretia? we need to save the world
Harambe
I feel for that turtle... Poor dude. And for his keeper! I saw a comment that said lonesome died- but they had each other, good friendship.
RIP George!
Can't he breed with other large tortoises and perhaps make friends with them? It won't be the same as having pure-bred pinter island giant tortoises, but I think it's worth a try. Half-breeds aren't so bad; and at least he would have left offspring behind after he dies.
I thinking same
as far as i know that turtle died months ago. 😞
Niki M Well, RIP tortoise.
What ive heard is that they tried using other turtles to breed with him but no luck :c
+brandonwort he is too old too breed i guess
He is on heaven with Harambe and Cecil the lion...
Rest in Peace George... I will miss u:((((
I went here this summer and it is sad to think of this beautiful island and its amazing species being wasted and token granted of.
i wonder if he knows that he is last of his kind
if we put you on a remote uninhabited island outside the range of any signalling towers, under an airspace that is never travelled, far from the routes of any ships, and you didn't have any technology with you.
would you know that you weren't the last of your kind? would you know if a time came where you were?
the answer is no, sorry to spoil your magical illusion.
Why so angry?
Clone him!!!
*original dies during cloning Still the lonliest animal
Clones have what they call "Half-Life" the clone will live half as long as the original in life span, and clones can't pro-create. It would be pointless to clone..
Inclemency17 clones are as old as the genetic material that was used to clone them. Clones can reproduce just as well as any other organism...remember dolly had 3 offspring.
Sad to say that traditional cloning wont help his species b/c George died in 2012.......however the Lazarus Project might revive his species.....it worked wonders for the gastric brooding frog that was extinct since the mid 80's.
Inclemency17 Untrue.
The cloning process is basically getting the DNA from one organism and putting it into an egg cell of a female of the same organism, this egg cell will be then artificially inseminated into a female and it will grow as if it was another offspring, the result is another organism that shares the same DNA, it would function normally and live the same as if it were just another animal.
The problem here is that there are no females of the tortoise left so it would not be possible.
Dyskit You could use a surrogate mother of a similar tortoise species.
heart breaking
the water over there looks beautiful! 😍😍😍
..why can't he be cloned?
Because that clone will receive very old DNA. The baby turtle will not be born with a regular infants young DNA. It will be born with the exact same DNA as this turtle, meaning the cells are old and deteriorated. So basically, it'd be like a human baby being born with the same medical issues as an 88 year old.
Riley Bowers
HAHAHAHA nooooo.
The age of cells is not recorded in the DNA, if you take DNA of an 80 year old and cloned him, the clone would not have cells of an 80 year old. That is like saying you can't clone an one armed man because the clone would have only 1 arm.
The reason you can't clone this animal is because even with cloning his species would not be genetically viable.
Depending on the species you have to have a large enough population to allow genetic diversity.
I believe in 50 years we will be able to bring back extinct species through DNA samples and randomly sequencing genes with algorithms to allow genetic variation that's stable with very few sample sizes of original DNA.
Maybe one day in the future we will have the answer, seeing how old tortoises live we may even have the answer in Lonesome George's lifetime.
(Typed this before I found out George died a hundred years early. RIP pieces George ;_;)
Zach Burskey JURASSIC PARK TIME!
*Jurassic Park theme music*
thei have better things to do like make Nuclear weapons
or try clone mamoth
Um, no. If he's an exact clone, then he will receive old DNA. We discussed this in my biology class. According to my teacher, they tested this and the cloned animal had the same medical issues as the old one, just as a baby. So, hahaha to you.
They know that the spanish absolutely decimated the tortoise population when they colonised South America back in the 15 or 16 Hundreds? they literally just picked them up and carried them onto the ships back home for fresh meat, they were completely defenceless.
People are the problem, always have been and always will be. The older I get the more I agree with Thanos.
my spirit animal
Found this video on Valentine's Day. How fitting.
I hate humanity.
+The Monster Good Reply... Seriously?
me too
Alberturkey54
nowdays what identifies a _specie_ can be very small morphological changes in bone structure or some other miniscule detail that emerged from isolated breeding grounds like this island here. But relatively speaking, it's like a human having instead of 26 bones in a foot having 25, you know, very small changes. So he's the last of the kind in one regard, but in anything tangible, he's just a giant tortoise.
+VanillaSnake21 you do have to say though, it removes 1 more little piece of magic from this world.
alex la piña yes indeed, it is morphological modification that was brought on by particular circumstance that will never be repeated again most likely. It's sad, but then I think of the new emerging species that are just now arising and I feel the awe again.
VanillaSnake21 exactly.
Poor George. RIP.
RIP Lonesome George :-(
wish they took his sperm and used it on a normal female tortoise so the species can live
It wouldn't work because you need diversity for a species to survive. Lone George's fate was sealed long before he was born.
They tried, though they let natural mating happen, with other subspecies. All of the eggs turned out to be non-viable. They where trying again with some other "very closely related" tortoises. He died in 2012 without mating with one.
because they are subspecies and may even be different species there a chances of the mating not being able to produce offsprings
actually my man no. island species often descend from one single animal. and those recovery can by made by a single clutch. kind of like the blue cayman island iguanas
A subspecies often just lives in a different location. In reality they're all members of one species. The term has been used to corrupt the Endangered Species Act. If a local subspecies is found it can be used to shut down an area to development or agiculture, when in reality the same species is found elsewhere and is not endangered.
so much for those islands being protected