Movie Summary
This tribute covers Lon'li Guju, the flying tortoise which Blizzard put into WoW in memory of Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises. Thank you to all the friends and guildies who volunteered their time to keep Lon'li Guju from being lonesome any more!!
Sources:
All of the non-WoW footage can be found on YouTube. There is so much more information about George than could be covered in my video, so check these out if you want to learn more about Lonesome George and the Pinta Island tortoises:
- BBC - "Galapagos -- Episode 1 -- Born of Fire": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I974jK...
- BBC - "Life in Cold Blood" (Lonesome George's Story with David Attenborough): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CQ9P...
- Galapagos Conservancy - "Lonesome George ambles away": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBJRM...
- Galapagos Conservancy - "The 2010 Return of Tortoises to Pinta Island
in Galapagos": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-em...
- BBC - "Equator" with Simon Reeve (Lonesome George the Galapagos Tortoise -- Explore): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOLK3...
- Image of Lonesome George: chelonianri.org (no photographer listed)
Music from:
Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto, Movement II: Andante (first excerpt: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andr� Previn, second excerpt: Itzhak Perlman, violin, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa)
Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Movement III: Allegro molto (London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis)