Tortoise spends 50 years having sex, saves entire species from extinction

Tortoise spends 50 years having sex, saves entire specie

A mammoth tortoise named Diego has with no assistance saved his own particular species from annihilation by putting in the latest 50 years making more than 800 kids. 

Diego was sent to the Galapagos Islands with the trusts that he would breed with a touch of the 12 females on the island of Espanola. 

Going before his way, there were only two arranged individuals of his kind, yet they were an abundance of spread out, making it hard to reproduceDiego, who is more than 100 years old, clearly had impact in the raising framework, with specialists surveying he has fathered more than 800 successors. 

"He's a sexually dynamic male reproducer. He's contributed massively to repopulating the island," tortoise securing power Washington Tapia told AFP. 

"We did a characteristic study and we found that he was the father of around 40 for each penny of the relatives released into the wild on Espanola."Diego is a sort of creature get-togethers neighborhood to Espanola known as a Chelonoidis hoodensis. He tips the scales at 80 kilograms and measures 1.5 meters tall. 

The superb individual tortoise was taken from the Galapagos Islands sooner or later some spot around 1900 and 1959, going before he returned home in 1976 and put in the raising structure. 

In light of the try and Diego's mammoth tries, his species no more goes up against extinction.2