More than a century ago, it turns out, sailors dumped saddle backed tortoises they did not need into Banks Bay, near Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island.

一百多年前，一些海员将他们不再需要的鞍背龟丢弃在了伊莎贝拉岛沃尔夫火山附近的班克斯湾。

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The researchers placed George in the same living area as females from the nearby island of Isabela.

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The largest island,Isabela, has five different kinds of tortoises.

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His death marks the end of the purebred Pinta Island tortoise, but there is hope that they will survive in some form: at least one first-generation descendant of the subspecies has been found at the Wolf volcano on neighboring Isabela Island.

CNN: Lonesome George, last of the Pinta Island tortoises, dies