The Loneliest Animals

"Imagine it's morning. You wake up and you are totally alone. You're 90 years old, and you're the last of your kind on earth."

This is the opening line of F. Abraham Murray's naration PBS's "The Loneliest Animals." The video footage of "Lonely George," the last known tortoise in the Galapagos Islands, is quite stirring, craning his 90-year-old neck in search of his next meal.

George is but one of many nearly-extinct animals on the planet, several of which are featured in this moving documentary. You can watch the entire episode here.

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