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"Wise Old Tortoise" by Catherine Sherman.

This old tortoise is not too impressed with the tourists passing by his enclosure at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.

Among the important work done at the station is the rearing of young giant tortoises, which are endangered in the wild on the Galapagos Islands because of predation of introduced species, such as rats.

The Galapagos tortoise or Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise and the 14th-heaviest living reptile. Modern giant tortoises can weigh up to 250 kg; even larger versions, now extinct, roamed every continent except Antarctica and Australia. Today, they exist only the Galapagos Islands, and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean.

The tortoise is native to seven of the Galapagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago about 620 miles (more than 1,000 kilometers) west of the Ecuadorian mainland. With life spa...

I'm a journalist and photographer, specializing in science, nature and historical topics, but I love to photograph and write about everything and everywhere. I love animals and photography and combine both by photographing cats available for adoption for the website of Wayside Waifs, an animal shelter in my city. Catherine Sherman on Fine Art America All of my images are available for licensing. Pricing information is available here by clicking on individual images: LICENSING PIXELS My website: Catherine Sherman Photography My Zazzle Store/CatherineSherman My Zazzle Fuzzyball Store of Products Featuring Cats and Dogs. My Zazzle Groovyshop. My ArtPal Gallery Store. My Twitter Account/CatherineSher10 Like My Facebook Art and...