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    The Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii), also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, Abingdon Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise...
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  • Pinta Island (Spanish: Isla Pinta) is one of the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, west of South America. Pinta has an area of 60 km2 (23 sq mi) and a maximum...
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  • Illbruck Pinta (disease), a skin disease caused by Treponema carateum Pinta Island (also known as Abington Island) in the Galapagos Islands Pinta (software)...
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    (Spanish: Solitario George or Jorge, c. 1910 – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii) and the last known individual...
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    can be seen here. Pinta Island was home to the last remaining Pinta tortoise, called Lonesome George. He was moved from Pinta Island to the Charles Darwin...
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    La Pinta (Spanish for The Painted One, The Look, or The Spotted One) was the fastest of the three Spanish ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first...
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  • happily along with all the other salmon. Professor Farnsworth, as a rare Pinta Island tortoise named Lonesome Hubert, is persuaded by his animal friends to...
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    Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii), died in his habitat in the Galápagos Islands. On 26 September 2016, Toughie...
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    Pinta Island similarly remembers another one of his ships. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley did not apparently chart or name this island in...
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    parents, many of which could still be alive on Isabela Island. Pinta Island The Pinta Island subspecies (C. n. abingdonii, now extinct) has been found...
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  • Pinzón, who served as the captains of the Pinta and Niña on Christopher Columbus's first voyage. Pinta Island is named after the ship itself. The English...
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    estimated to be able to house ecologically functional populations.  The Pinta Island tortoise (Geochelone nigra abingdoni) had only one living individual...
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  • two-dog attack George (lobster) George (snail) Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise George (club), a members club on Mount Street in London's Mayfair...
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    multiple subspecies formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands. As of February 2024, two different species...
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  • tortoise. Pinta giant tortoise or Pinta Island tortoise, Chelonoidis abingdonii, is a species of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island that is...
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    The Galápagos Islands are an isolated set of volcanoes, consisting of shield volcanoes and lava plateaus, located 1,200 km (746 mi) west of Ecuador. They...
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  • textiles producer living in Milan, to hire a bodyguard for their daughter Pinta, he is doubtful but agrees. After some searching, he finally settles for...
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    volcanoes of the largest island, Isabela (Wolf, Darwin, Alcedo, Sierra Negra, and Cerro Azul); and one, abingdoni from Pinta Island, which is considered extinct...
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  • community within Abington Township Pinta Island, also known as Abington Island, located in the Galápagos Islands group Abington (MBTA station) Abingdon...
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  • pinta is a species of snout moth in the genus Macrorrhinia. It was described by Bernard Landry and Herbert H. Neunzig in 1998 and is known from Pinta...
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  • University of Hawaii at Manoa, was named George, after Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise that was also the last of its kind. George's parents were collected...
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    Marine iguana (category Endemic reptiles of the Galápagos Islands)
    Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1962 – Pinta Island A. c. venustissimus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1956 – Española Island and adjacent tiny Gardener Island In 2017, the first comprehensive...
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    Paraguay. June 24 – Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, dies in Galápagos National Park, thus making the...
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  • animator and director (A Is for Atom), (d. 2003). Lonesome George, Spanish Pinta Island tortoise (inspiration for the Lonesome Hubert segment in the Futurama...
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  • dies from prostate cancer at age 82. June 24: Lonesome George, Spanish Pinta Island tortoise (inspiration for the Lonesome Hubert segment in the Futurama...
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    Project Isabela (category Galápagos Islands)
    eradicate these introduced species in northern Isabela, Santiago, and Pinta islands. Skilled park rangers used helicopters to hunt, and sterilized Judas...
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  • Typhlopidae Typhlops cariei Family Testudinidae Pinta Island giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) Floreana Island giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) Réunion...
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    numbers. The Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) was a species of Galápagos tortoises that previously occupied Pinta Island in Ecuador. After...
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    Komodo dragon group, an American alligator, Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, and poison dart frogs. In 1926, W. Douglas Burden, F.J. Defosse...
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    until they could reach the Canary Islands, where they arrived on 9 August. The Pinta had its rudder replaced on the island of Gran Canaria, and by September...
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