Jane Austen meets Galapagos George. The intrepid John Tierney on the travails of a turtle (pix by Laurie Rosenwald):
It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least among humans, that a giant tortoise in the possession of the last sperm of his species must be in want of a wife. But what if the tortoise prefers a different lifestyle?Fascinating story which does not yet have an ending. Will George find true love or retreat into his shell?
When I met Lonesome George two decades ago, in his pen on the main island of the Galápagos, I had the usual impulse to fix up the world’s most famous bachelor.
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