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    They are beautiful! Nice shots.
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    Gala huh? I'm 100% jealous. lol absolutely beautiful shots.
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    Great pictures! I've always wanted to go there.
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    They are so sleepy! Any action/diving shots?
    The still photos are mostly pretty accurate of their lifestlye. I was there just as mating season was starting up, so the males were pretty sensitive if one of their bretheren made a sharp move or bobbed his head:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufuI3...layer_embedded
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    They also move under water:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=J3YkHQFk1pE

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    hey, have you seen some galapagos tortoise there? Got any pic of them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben3233 View Post
    hey, have you seen some galapagos tortoise there? Got any pic of them?
    The Bensome moderator's wish is my command:
    First, this is a wild tortoise, I think on Santa Cruz Island:
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    He was just grazing in a pasture like a cow. The tortoises were migrating and you could see their giant shells from a great distance. Here's one that shows the shape of the carapace a little better:
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    They were huge; I could easily have ridden one. I think this guy was about 5 ft long, if memory serves correctly. To give you a sense, and because I know some people on this site love pictures of poop:
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    That's tortoise poop next to HernandosPapa's size 10-1/2 foot. You could stand that close and it didn't stink (the poop)! I think because their digestive tract may not rely on anaerobic bacteria?

    Next someone may ask to see the tortoise frolicking and jumping around:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t8qkg2Du4Y
    Last edited by HernandosMom; 05-09-2010 at 08:03 PM.

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    And this (on the left) is Lonesome George ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochelone_nigra_abingdoni ) perhaps the most famous individual reptile in the world. HernandosPapa is keeping him company for now:
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    These three photos are not strictly speaking field herping, in that Lonesome George lives in a special tortoise research and breeding facility, as do these guys from various other Galapagos islands:
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    This is a posture they naturally go into when a special cleaning finch comes by to preen them (eating bugs off their skin)

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    Nice picture of tortoise I like them.
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    Thank you, Ben, and thanks for fixing the thread name.

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