@Droneando The Galápagos Giant Tortoise Farm.
169 views · Published 23 October 2015 · 0:16 · Indexed 17 October 2026
Channel: Luis Rodriguez · 2015 · Travel & Events
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise 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 into the Pleistocene or aprox 1.8 million years ago. Today, they exist only on two remote archipelagos: the Galápagos 1000 km due west of Ecuador, and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, 700 km east of Tanzania. The Galápagos Islands were discovered in 1535, but first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, around 1570. The islands were named "Insulae de los Galopegos" or Islands of the Tortoises in reference to the giant tortoises found there.
