Carrot Yey
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
Carrot Yey
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
I just loved how when Hugo, the Galapagos tortoise, just stop eating the second he saw that carrot !! Its not hard to guess that he loves carrots !!!
Santa Fe Island and Floreana Island, a popular destination for sailors, saw their giant tortoises disappear first. It was thought that all the tortoises on Pinta Island had gone extinct as well, but in 1972 an expedition discovered a single animal roaming the island alone. Dubbed Lonesome George, he was cared for lovingly by rangers and naturalists at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galápagos for the next four decades. Efforts to find a mate for George and continue the Pinta tortoise line were unsuccessful, and his death in 2012 was thought to mark the end of the species.
Recent developments, however, suggest that Lonesome George may not in fact have been the last of his kind. Back in 2008, scientists tagged some 1,600 giant tortoises found living near Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island in the Galápagos. When geneticists at Yale University analyzed blood samples taken from the tortoises in 2012, they discovered that 89 of the animals partly matched the genetic profile of the Floreana tortoise. (The full DNA profile of the Floreana had been obtained using museum samples.) Some even had genes suggesting that their parents were living purebred Floreanas, previously thought to have gone extinct long ago. In addition, 17 of the Wolf Volcano tortoises had significant amounts of Pinta DNA, meaning that some of George’s closest living relatives—maybe even his next of kin—still survived.
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September 22nd, 2017
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Comments (19)
Phyllis Kaltenbach
Well, I think Hugo is wonderful and I love this capture and the write-up on Hugo and that carrot! V/F
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Great capture!Thanks for sharing as i have not seen an Animal like this before.L/F