What are the Feeding Habits of Galapagos Island Tortoises?
Galapagos Island tortoises are giant land-dwelling turtles found only on the Galapagos Islands, an isolated Pacific archipelago 450 miles off the coast of Ecuador. Males can weigh as much as 550 pounds, with shells more than 5 feet long. The tortoises can live more than 150 years. Charles Darwin’s encounter in 1835 with the unusual creatures contributed to the formation of his theory of evolution by natural selection. Of the 15 subspecies that existed then, 11 survive.
