Lonesome no more - Telegraph Like Mohicans and big spenders, there had to be the last of the Pinta Island tortoises. For some years it had been George, Lonesome George. Now he is no more, cut off in his tortoisy prime of 100 or so. For an unfurry animal, he had great appeal. In some ways his was a privileged life. Not for him the name Ptolemy, with which so many of his smaller cousins had been landed. Latterly, George was lodged in a roomy corral with attractive lady tortoises, and if he failed to secure the Georgian succession it was not through a panda-like disdain for the mechanics of paternity. There have been other losses to the tortoise world - Timothy of Powderham Castle, aged 165, in 2004; Harriet, a giant Galapagos tortoise too, quite falsely believed to have been collected by Charles Darwin, aged 176, in 2006. They had their followers, but George stood alone. That was his sorrow.