He Got So Lonesome, He Got So Lonesome, He Did Die

Lonesome George, the last known Ecuadorian Pinta Island tortoise, has died at an age well in excess of 100 years. Found living a peaceful existence in the wild, the scientists who found him in 1971 decided to put an end to that and relocated him to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands. George proved to be either infertile, extremely particular, gay or repulsed by the hideous female turtles of closely related subspecies as more than 30 years of attempts to propagate the genetic line proved fruitless.