Diego (tortoise)
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diego-tortoise-162-11072000
title:
Diego (tortoise)
text:
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 Hood Island tortoises was set up in 1976, by which time only 15 individuals were known to survive. Diego was identified as a Hood Island tortoise by DNA testi
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encyclopedia
description:
Famous tortoise for being father of around 900 hatchlings
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_(tortoise)
date created:
2020-01-20T08:41:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T21:41:42Z
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13
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