Everyone's Super Impressed With This Sex-Crazed Tortoise Who Saved His Species

    Diego is a legend.

    Ishmael N. Daro
    by Ishmael N. Daro

    BuzzFeed Staff, Canada

    This is Diego, a Galapagos giant tortoise who pretty much saved his entire species from extinction with his insatiable lust for booty.

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    According to AFP, Diego is over 100 years old and has fathered an estimated 800 offspring.

    The sex-crazed tortoise is a Chelonoidis hoodensis, a species found only on Espanola in the Galapagos Islands. There were only two males and a dozen females of the species left on the island about 50 years ago. But largely through Diego's efforts at a nearby breeding centre, along with six females in his enclosure, the tortoises have bounced back, numbering in the thousands.

    "He's a very sexually active male reproducer," Washington Tapia, a tortoise specialist at Galapagos National Park, told AFP. "He's contributed enormously to repopulating the island."

    Genetic testing shows that Diego has fathered about 40% of the tortoises released on Espanola. The whole species pretty much owes its survival to this sex god.

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    Diego is definitely DTF.

    Ponyboy McFly @MuddyMooch

    Diego the tortoise is my idol.

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    A living legend. 🐢

    jf martin @frenchscotjeff

    Diego is a legend!!! https://t.co/GRZpzi4RXw

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    People are already planning tributes to this hero.

    B. @BG2MPH

    My first son's middle name will be Diego in honor of the tortoise that saved his species.

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    Mr Steal Yo Wifi @oc1205

    Need me a "Diego the sex-mad tortoise" with the word HOPE on a shirt.

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    And wondering what it is that makes Diego so irresistible to the ladies.

    uɐɯssnS ʇʇɐW @suss2hyphens

    I can understand why one male tortoise would be so sexually appealing to female tortoises. It's because he takes things slow

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    BTW, if Diego were human, he'd be one of the most prolific dudes ever.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children
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    God bless you, Diego.

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