100-Year-Old Tortoise Fathers 800 Offspring in Fight to Save Species

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Sep 16, 2016, 12:04 pm118 pts
He may be well over 100 years old, but Diego the Tortoise still has plenty of charm and he's using it to ensure that his species lives on. The giant Galapagos tortoise has been "working" since the 1960s—when there were only 14 wild tortoises, two of which were male, left on Españ ola—to save his native…

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100-Year-Old Tortoise Fathers 800 Offspring in Fight to Save Species

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