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Galapagos Giant Tortoise

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Galapagos Giant Tortoise [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise

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Galapagos Giant Tortoises: Giant Tortoise. No animal is more synonymous with the Galapagos Islands than the giant tortoise. Indeed, the saddle-back shape of ...
http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Tortoise.html

Galapagos Giant Tortoise: A Galápagos Giant Tortoise at the Darwin Research Center on Santa Cruz Island. Return to the reptiles and mammals index page.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcgeo007/galapagostortoise.html

Endangered Galapagos Tortoises Face New Threat : 1/00: ...selection. Since Darwin's visit, the Galapagos giant tortoise (Geochelone elephantpus) has had a difficult time surviving in the wild. ...
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2000/january12/galapagosside-112.html

CITES: TESTUDINIDAE, Geochelone (Aldabrachelys) gigantea, Aldabra Giant Tortoise, II. TESTUDINIDAE, Geochelone (Testudo) nigra (elephantopus), Galapagos Giant Tortoise ...
http://biology.uky.edu/palmer/cites.htm

CRYPTODIRA: Testudo was the largest ever land tortoise, at 2.5 m long and weighing 4 tonnes (twice as long and sixteen times as heavy as the modern Galapagos giant tortoise ...
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4/5c5d14a.htm

Galapagos Photos by Dr. Anna E. Ross: Santa Cruz. Galapagos giant tortoise, Geochelone elephantopus, in a cow pasture. Subspecies with domed carapace evolved on islands with lush vegetation. ...
http://www.cbu.edu/~aross/Galapagos_AER.html

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Index: ...terrapin gabonensis, Pelusios gabonensis, Pentonyx Gaguama gaigeae, T. Galap Galápago guruno llanero galapagoensis Galapagos giant tortoise Galapagos tortoise ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/search/queryhitturt.htm

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--9: Manual 3: A-301.011.003.005:1-2. GEOGRAPHIC CODE: EC. COMMON NAME: Galapagos tortoise, Galapagos giant tortoise, Tortuga gigante de las Galapagos. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst9.htm

ADW: riesenschildfacedarwin.jpg: Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos. Caption Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus), captive. Contributors ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/eva_hejda/riesenschildfacedarwin.jpg/view.html



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