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dc.coverage.spatialEcuadoranen
dc.coverage.spatialGalapagos Islandsen
dc.coverage.spatialPuerto Ayoraen
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-07T03:44:11Z
dc.date.available2018-08-07T03:44:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-02-19
dc.identifier.citation'Lonesome George' returned to Galapagos. (2017, February 19). Manila Standard, p. B4.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/1456
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPhilippine Manila Standard Publishing, Inc.en
dc.subjectFixationen
dc.subjectlongevityen
dc.subjectmortalityen
dc.subjectfreshwater turtlesen
dc.title'Lonesome George' returned to Galapagosen
dc.typenewspaperArticleen
dc.citation.journalTitleManila Standarden
dc.citation.spageB4en
local.seafdecaqd.controlnumberMS20170219_B4en
local.seafdecaqd.extractThe embalmed body of the giant tortoise known as Lonesome George - the last known survivor of a species that died out in 2012 - has been returned home to the Ecuadoran Galapagos Islands. The body arrived in Puerto Ayora, the capital of the archipelago's Santa Cruz Island, on an Ecuadoran military plane after undergoing taxidermy work at New York's American Museum of Natural History, the Galapagos National Park said. The giant tortoise was the last known member of the subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni.en
local.subject.corporateNameNew York's American Museum of Natural Historyen
local.subject.scientificNameGeochelone nigra abingdonien


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