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  2. Galápagos wildlife - Wikipedia

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    Santa Cruz giant tortoise Bottlenose dolphins jumping off Galápagos Islands. One of the best-known is the Galápagos tortoise, which lived on ten of the islands. Nowadays, some species are either extinct or extinct in the wild and it lives on six of the islands. It has an average lifespan of more than 130 years.

  3. Galápagos Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Galápagos Islands ... This move proved unexpectedly useful when the native iguanas became extinct on Baltra as a result of the island's military occupation in ...

  4. List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene

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    Floreana, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Disappeared from the wild in the mid-19th century, though hybrids survive in captivity and in northern Isabela Island. Likely extinct due to hunting and the impact of introduced mammals including pigs, dogs, cats, goats, donkeys, cattle, black rats and house mice. [64] Santa Fe Island tortoise

  5. Meet Fernanda the giant tortoise from a species believed ...

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    “It is a truly exciting discovery that the species is not in fact extinct, but lives on.” Fernandina Island is an active volcano at the western side of the Galapagos Islands, which Charles ...

  6. Giant Tortoise Thought Extinct for 112 Years ... - AOL

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    A giant tortoise found on Fernandina Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos National Park in 2019 has been confirmed as a member of Chelonoidis phantasticus, a species thought to have gone extinct more ...

  7. Galápagos tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The Pinta Island subspecies (C. n. abingdonii, now extinct) has been found to be most closely related to the subspecies on the islands of San Cristóbal (C. n. chathamensis) and Española (C. n. hoodensis) which lie over 300 km (190 mi) away, [18] rather than that on the neighbouring island of Isabela as previously assumed.

  8. Pinta Island tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The Pinta Island tortoise [4] (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii [2] [5]), also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, [2] Abingdon Island tortoise, [1] or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, [2] is a recently extinct subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island.

  9. Lonesome George - Wikipedia

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    The Ecuadorean government wanted the taxidermy to be shown in the capital, Quito, but the Galápagos local mayor said Lonesome George was a symbol of the islands and should return home. [ 28 ] On February 17, 2017, Lonesome George's taxidermy was flown back to the Galápagos Islands, where it is currently on display in the Fausto Llerena ...