Christmas around the world

Galapagos Island

Galapagos Island:

• Ninety seven percent of the Galapagos islands are national parks, and the other half are a endemic to the galapagos.
• The Galapagos islands is one of the most biodiverse and unique places on earth.
• In 1835 Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos on a ship called the "Beagle" and later he became a famous scientist.
• Galapagos means tortoise in Spanish.

Animals of Galapagos island:

• (Tortoises) The fresh meat of an giant tortoise keeps them from starving to death. Sailors knew that they would survive without water or food so the stacked them in the damp dark holds of their ship one on top of another.
• Lonesome george was the luckies tourtoris. Why? because the sailors that were there had missed lonesome while they were there hunting for his kind sadly he had passed away but the national park and others will always remember the luckies tortoise on earth.
• Rats were never in the galapagos until ships had brought them to the island and  since then they have been eating eggs and little baby tortoise.
• Tortoise are the largest land spices in the world.
• (Blue footed boobies & red footed boobies) One of the rarest creatures and can be found in the Galapagos islands.
• (Frigate) They are also different birds with puffed out red pouch underneath there beak.
• (Sea lions) they are everywhere laying on the shore and swimming in sea of Galapagos islands.

         

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