Giant Tortoise Diego Retires After Fathering 800 Offspring-And Saving the Species
Go, Diego, go! Diego, a Galapagos giant tortoise estimated to be about 130-years-old, is making his return home after saving his species.
How exactly did he do that? To put it frankly, Diego had so much sex, that well, he saved an entire species.
Diego is part of the Chelonoidis hoodensis species that resides on the Galapagos island of Espanola.
According to the San Diego Zoo, the tortoise was brought to America some time between 1928 and 1933 and was later placed into the Charles Darwin Research Station for protection once the species was declared critically endangered in the 1960s.
It has been a long journey for the tortoise who spent 30 years at the San Diego Zoo's breeding program, before...