Some time ago we brought you Lonesome George. Lonesome is a giant tortoise. He is thought to be the last surviving male of his species. And...no pressure here George, but if you don’t breed the species disappears.

But George doesn’t seem to get it -either way. George was discovered on his native Pinta Island in the Galapagos Islands in 1971. And since then there has been a steady stream of available female tortoise company as park rangers and scientists have tried hard to help George and his species. The word has gone out to everything except the on-line dating community to try to find George’s mate.
But so far to no effect. And still to no effect .

But now there is also OR7...a very lonesome wolf. In very late December he came to California. And this sad lovesick grey wolf looking for a mate is the first to turn up in  California since its species was hunted to extinction there nearly 90 years ago.

OR7 left his pack in Oregon in September just a few days before officials there issued orders to kill his family for killing cattle. So he has travelled 1300 kilometres. But hes not universally loved in California and the race is on to make him too famous to kill. The wolf is protected under the Endangered Species Act. But sadly scientists think he may be headed to Nevada and there are no wolves there. 

This gets too sad.

Picture is a grey wolf , but not OR7