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I hope they don't do to it what they did to the giant squid when they discovered that too (kill it).
by ck2 11y ago
I hope they don't do to it what they did to the giant squid when they discovered that too (kill it).
- Mz 11y agoI read several articles on this. My recollection is that conservation of giant tortoises has been very successful and that identifying this as a separate species will most likely result in efforts to further increase members of this specific species. IIRC, it only has 250 members, much lower than the 2000+ members of the group it was thought to be part of. So identifying it as a separate species is expected to help increase their numbers.
- ch4s3 11y agoThey probably did a mouth swab or drew blood. Not hard to do without hurting the turtle.