Extinct in the wild George on the Galapagos island of Pinta on 1 December 1971. Since then, Lonesome George has been a powerful symbol for conservation efforts in general and for the Galapagos Islands in particular. With his death on 24 June 2012, the subspecies is again believed to be extinct. With the discovery of 17 hybrid Pinta tortoises located at nearby Wolf Volcano a plan has been made to attempt to breed the subspecies back into a pure state. Not all species that are extinct in the wild are rare. For example, "Ameca splendens", though extinct in the wild, was a popular fish
Active–stative language often show complications and special cases ("pure" active alignment is an ideal). Thus, the terminology used is rather flexible. Active languages are termed also "active–stative" or even "nominative–absolutive". The terms "agentive case" and "patientive case" used above are descriptive but not standard. They are sometimes replaced by the terms "active" and "inactive". The names of the subtypes, "split-S" and "fluid-S", come from the designation of the single argument of intransitive verbs as "S". The names were first used by Robert M. W. Dixon in 1979. (†) = extinct language According to Castro Alves (2010), a split-S alignment can be safely