1998 or 1999: i read a news story about a snail. it would have been comical if it hadn’t been so sad. the very small snail was in captivity. it traveled so slowly (i remember its speed described as something like an inch or two a year) it was only determined to have died months after it appeared to stop moving. to the knowledge of the biologists who kept the snail it was believed to be the last of its species.
I saw that. Very sad.
Heard about this. Fucking humans!
So. Sad. *cries*
Blessed journey, George. I hope the other side extends you more love and appreciation than you received here.
Sad
But extinction happens. We’ll have our turn
I roughly remembered that the early explorers got a few of the tortoises onto their ship so that they could have fresh meat for their long journeys. But sometimes the ship rats snuck off the boats and they were the ones that killed the tortoise eggs.
To be a pedant, I think it’s important to note he was the last surviving individual of a subspecies, not an entire species (though I know the distinction is often murky). Still sad though.
awww, I love tortoises. I miss my russian tortoise, who bore a striking resemblance to an elderly filipino man who goes to my pharmacy
Poor George. Perhaps there is another one we don’t know about.
@rosethorn6 - I was about to say…I didn’t think all Galapagos tortoises are extinct. But yes, still sad.
Oh no I want to cry
I’m not saying that mankind was not involved in his extinction, but sometimes there are other factors that lead to the extinction of a species. It is wrong to blame all extinctions on the works of mankind.
It is sad, but over 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct – I don’t feel responsible for all of them.
” For the want of a nail …”
Sad
sad as fuck.
sadly, it’s us humans to be blamed.
That puts it into perspective, doesn’t it? One day, a species exists and the next day, it doesn’t.
Pinta Island Tortoise went extinct on my birthday :’( Poor little guy.
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1998 or 1999: i read a news story about a snail. it would have been comical if it hadn’t been so sad. the very small snail was in captivity. it traveled so slowly (i remember its speed described as something like an inch or two a year) it was only determined to have died months after it appeared to stop moving. to the knowledge of the biologists who kept the snail it was believed to be the last of its species.
I saw that. Very sad.
Heard about this. Fucking humans!
So. Sad. *cries*
Blessed journey, George. I hope the other side extends you more love and appreciation than you received here.
Sad
But extinction happens. We’ll have our turn
I roughly remembered that the early explorers got a few of the tortoises onto their ship so that they could have fresh meat for their long journeys. But sometimes the ship rats snuck off the boats and they were the ones that killed the tortoise eggs.
To be a pedant, I think it’s important to note he was the last surviving individual of a subspecies, not an entire species (though I know the distinction is often murky). Still sad though.
awww, I love tortoises. I miss my russian tortoise, who bore a striking resemblance to an elderly filipino man who goes to my pharmacy
Poor George. Perhaps there is another one we don’t know about.
@rosethorn6 - I was about to say…I didn’t think all Galapagos tortoises are extinct. But yes, still sad.
Oh no
I want to cry
I’m not saying that mankind was not involved in his extinction, but sometimes there are other factors that lead to the extinction of a species. It is wrong to blame all extinctions on the works of mankind.
It is sad, but over 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct – I don’t feel responsible for all of them.
” For the want of a nail …”
Sad
sad as fuck.
sadly, it’s us humans to be blamed.
That puts it into perspective, doesn’t it? One day, a species exists and the next day, it doesn’t.
Pinta Island Tortoise went extinct on my birthday :’( Poor little guy.