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  Galápagos giant tortoise 
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Testudinidae
Genus: Chelonoidis
Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra complex)
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Shell dance
Galápagos giant tortoise - Indefatigable Island tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri)
Santa Cruz Island
 
Galápagos 2018 
July 2, 2018
Canon 7Dmarkii
 
 
 
 
7 and 28
At a sprint
Table manners
Stuffed
Facing unreality
Assuming the tortoise position
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Tortoise
 
"Hey Bob"
 
Baby giants
 
Chuckie who?
 
Tortoise easily refutes Darwin
 
Zarek's tortoise
Drawing by Zarek
Floreana, Galápagos
June 28, 2015
 
Bob, J-tal, and Mr. T.
 
Bob goes back in his shell
 
Enchanting
 
Has anyone seen my dentures?
 
     
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Hydropathy, tortoise style
      
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Lonesome George eyes a passerby
      
"55"
      
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modified: March 8, 2020
created: October 24, 2019 (from galapagos.html)
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