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Galápagos tortoise

Chelonoidis nigra

Photo by JyoLyn
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

slow, lazy, huge, tame

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Galápagos tortoise

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Comments (2)
Ava T-B
Nice series. Please consider adding this lovely spotting to the new Galapagos mission at : http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/14784200
Mark Ridgway
Ha ha. Love the description. I bet they don't think they're lazy... probably going as fast as they can.

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PublishedJanuary 30, 2012

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