Videos tagged with "george"

BITÁCORA GALAPAGOS 4 DE 4.mp4 [09:19]
Este documental turístico describe un recorrido de ensueño para los amantes de la vida y la naturaleza, por uno de los ecosistemas únicos en el mundo: Islas Galápagos. Por sus hermosos y relajantes paisajes, para conocer los más exóticos y extraños animales, por su flora única en el mundo, para sentirse parte de la historia evolutiva de nuestro planeta y para extasiarse con maravillosos momentos que solo son posibles en este, el lugar más puro del planeta, lo invitamos a vivir su propia Bitácora por las Islas Galapagos. Narrado por: Jesús González Dirección y realización. Jesús González, Gustavo González y Luis Pardo
Tags: islas galápagos, documental galápagos, Cosmovision, Luis Pardo, Tortugas, Isla San Cristóbal, Quito, Ecuador, Galápagos Islands, turismo Galápagos, Jesús González, Gustavo González, Canal Cosmovision, Lonesome George, solitario George, española,

BITÁCORA GALAPAGOS 3 DE 4.mp4 [11:04]
Este documental turístico describe un recorrido de ensueño para los amantes de la vida y la naturaleza, por uno de los ecosistemas únicos en el mundo: Islas Galápagos. Por sus hermosos y relajantes paisajes, para conocer los más exóticos y extraños animales, por su flora única en el mundo, para sentirse parte de la historia evolutiva de nuestro planeta y para extasiarse con maravillosos momentos que solo son posibles en este, el lugar más puro del planeta, lo invitamos a vivir su propia Bitácora por las Islas Galapagos. Narrado por: Jesús González Dirección y realización. Jesús González, Gustavo González y Luis Pardo
Tags: islas galápagos, documental galápagos, Cosmovision, Luis Pardo, Tortugas, Isla San Cristóbal, Quito, Ecuador, Galápagos Islands Diego Canal, turismo Galápagos, Jesús González, Gustavo González, Canal Cosmovision, Lonesome George, solitario George,

Galapagos - George the turtle [01:56]
Meeting George the Turtle on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Tags: Galapagos, George trhe turtle, ecuador, Places we go, Jennifer Adams, Clint Bizzell, Places to go, Travel, Adventure travel, Tv travel show, We go places, Places to visit, Eve Media, Clint and Jen, Channel 10 travel show, Ch 10 travel show, Travel show ch

Lonesome George...Trip to the Galapagos Islands, June 2010 [00:46]
I visited the Darwin Research station in as one of my itinerary in the trip to the Galapagos Islands in June 2010. I personally saw the remaining species of this tortoise called "Lonesome George." Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario Jorge) is the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni), which is one of eight to fifteen extant subspecies of Galápagos tortoise, all of which are native to the Galápagos Islands.[1][2] He has been labeled the rarest creature in the world, and he is a potent symbol for conservation efforts in the Galápagos and conservation efforts internationally.[3] It is thought that he was named after a character played by American actor George Gobel. George was first seen on the island of Pinta on 1 December 1971 by Hungarian malacologist József Vágvölgyi. The island's vegetation had been devastated by introduced feral goats, and the indigenous G. n. abingdoni population had been reduced to a single individual. Relocated for his safety to the Charles Darwin Research Station, George was penned with two females of a different subspecies, but although eggs have been produced, none has hatched. George is estimated to be about 100 years of age, and he is in good health.[4] A prolonged effort to exterminate goats introduced to Pinta is now complete, and the vegetation of the island is starting to return to its former state. The presence of mixed race Pinta ancestry tortoises around Wolf Volcano, on neighbouring Isabela ...
Tags: lonesomegeorge, galapagosislands, Ecuador, worldtravel, Travel, Swim_butterfly

Lonesome George and other Galapagos Tortoises [08:56]
Lonesome George and other Saddleback Galapagos Tortoises at the Darwin Research Center in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Tags: Galapagos Islands, Tortoise, Saddleback, Darwin, Lonesome George, Awad, Ecuador, South America