Galapagos tortoise no longer endangered.

[abbybaby]

First pandas, now this. What a great month.

He fathered 800 babies to save them.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/16/galapagos-tortoise-fathers-800-save-species-newser/90475418/

meet Diego, the lusty 100-plus-year-old tortoise who has helped bring his kind back from the brink of extinction—by having copious amounts of sex with any female in sight, reports the AFP. "He’s a very sexually active male reproducer," says Washington Tapia, an actual tortoise preservation specialist at Galapagos National Park. "He’s contributing enormously to repopulating the island." How enormously? Diego is babydaddy to an estimated 800 offspring, or to better put it, a genetic test four years ago showed "that he was the father of nearly 40% of the offspring released into the wild

[The Mrs.]

What an awesome story.

[Anxious Susie]

We saved lots of animals this month!

[J. Gatsby]

wow how many eggs do they lay at a time?

[The Mrs.]

Sept 18, 2016 8:11:40 GMT -5 J. Gatsby said:

wow how many eggs do they lay at a time?

7ish at a time.

[Topanga]

Awww

[Kevin Kurson]

What a pimp.

[Sir Amadeus]

That's cool.

[lucy hanson]

Just in time for our reptile charity.

[Something Loud]

That's no tortoise. That's a stallion.

[Miss Ginny]

That is so badass.

[ontheroad]

Cheers for the species.

[Debbie62]

He looks like a good father.