What a man - oooops, sorry, I mean, what a Tortoise! Diego 'Studboy' Chelonoidus was practically the last giant tortoise on the Galapagos but, at the miraculous age of over a hundred, he has fathered some 800 off-spring and thereby saved his species. According to the report on France24:
Diego weighs about 80 kilograms (175 pounds), is nearly 90 centimeters (35 inches) long and 1.5 meters (five feet) tall if he really stretches his legs and neck.
Alas, certain other, er, critical dimensions are not vouchsafed but I think his productivity speaks for itself.
Little did scientists realize just how effective he was, until six years ago.
"We did a genetic study and we discovered that he was the father of nearly 40 percent of the offspring released into the wild on Espanola," Tapia told AFP.
I may have to fly over to the Galapagos and have a quiet word with Diego and try to learn the secret of his success. The 'Memsahib' once gave me some little blue pills and assured me they would do the trick but they never worked. It was only later that I learned from my pharmacist that they were indigestion tablets!
"Alas, certain other, er, critical dimensions are not vouchsafed ..."
Well to that ...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5919870/the-terrifying-sex-organs-of-male-turtles
(And now any y'all not yet "in the know!" as to how I got the nickname "Terrapin" it first wasn't anything whatsoever to do with JK being slow.
Secondarily? Maybe.)
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 22:46
"I may have to fly over to the Galapagos and have a quiet word with Diego and try to learn the secret of his success."
Seven kilos of green leafy vegetables every day, and do it very slowly. Let us know how you get on, if you'll pardon the expression.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 22:58
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 23:17
Thank you JK for link - a little too much information
Posted by: Cuffleyburgers | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 06:45
Well then Cuffleyburgers for some redemption of myself this:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/scientist-names-newly-discovered-parasite-after-obama/
I've your vote? (Take that as a firm yes but maybe no but then again have I, Cuffers, a third option, shall I?)
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 07:00
Sorry, JK, I couldn't read the whole of that, er, fascinating article because I began to suffer with GIC syndrome (Galloping Inferiority Complex)!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 08:46
You David Sir, took to feeling an inferiority complex with Obama's being "scientifically named" ... in honor of ... a .. well yes Sir I'd imagine "begun to suffer GIC" against a flatworm would, naturally disaffect an otherwise upright Englishman but ... as it occasionally happens David you understand; it's The Science Boffins Do.
At your expense I figure you probably already know.
But I'm an American and, I can't help you with that inferiority complex. Such that it is.
Well maybe I can offer some solace as I notice missredn't
Lemme see ...
https://stephaniebe.wordpress.com/topless-tuesday-girls/
Hope that helps David.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 10:36
JK, were all those pictured girls runners up for the title of Miss Arkansas?
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 12:13
If they are I want to know when the next 'plane to Little Rock is leaving!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 12:33
Those pictures of a male turtle and his 'apparatus' pretty much killed my appreciation for turtle soup. The space between that gentleman turtle and his lady friend sort of gives a new meaning to "mind the gap".
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 15 September 2016 at 13:00