When You're Lonely

When you're lonely, think of Lonesome George. When I first heard of him on the radio, it was my own NPR "Driveway Moment." George is a galapagos tortoise, the last of his kind. He was only found in the 1970s, and another tortoise like him hadn't been seen since 1906. What's worse, all of his family and peers were killed (indirectly) by goats. (Can you imagine? Everyone you love, lost to the goats?) They've tried to mate George with his close genetic cousins without success.
"I have to say that I think Lonesome George will never find a mate," Dr Gisella Caccone a senior research scientist at Yale's department of ecology and evolutionary biology said. "He has been lonely for a long time."
George is just 70 years old now and could live 150 years. Sometimes I think about Lonesome George and wonder how he's feeling. Right now, they can't figure out how to clone him, but I guess there's still a lot of time.
When you're lonely listen to Lonesome George's story, or read about him.