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Diego is a Hood Island giant tortoise. Thought to have been hatched on Española Island, Galápagos, he was captured as a young adult and shipped to the United States where he was exhibited at zoos. By the late 1940s he was at San Diego Zoo, California, though his species was not known. A captive breeding effort for the critically endangered ...
Go, Diego, Go! is an American animated educational interactive children's television program that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 6, 2005 in the United States. Created and executive produced by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes, the series is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer and follows Dora's cousin Diego, an 8-year-old boy whose adventures frequently involve rescuing animals and ...
Since 1976, Diego, the 130-year-old giant tortoise hailing from San Diego, has lived at the Fausto Llerena Tortoise Center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Now, he's retiring after helping ...
Go, Diego, Go! is an American animated children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon from September 6, 2005 [1][2] to September 16, 2011, with 80 episodes across five seasons.
Diego, the giant tortoise who saved his species, finally goes home
List of subspecies of Galápagos tortoise. Chelonoidis niger (the Galápagos tortoise) is a tortoise species endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It includes at least 14, and possibly up to 16, subspecies. [1] Only 12 subspecies now exist: one on each of the islands of Santiago, San Cristóbal, Pinzón, Española, and Fernandina; two on Santa ...
He's over 100-years-old but that hasn't slowed him down at all.
Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario George or Jorge, c. 1910 [2][3][4][5] – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii) and the last known individual of the subspecies. [6][7][8][9] In his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world. George serves as an important symbol for conservation ...