All About The Galapagos Tortoise

               All About Galapagos Tortoises

    

      

     

                The Emydidae family is one of the most recognized group of tortoises, it includes all of the South American tortoise species, yet the star of today's article is the famous Galapagos tortoise. 

If you want to learn how the Galapagos tortoise is great for it's island's agriculture, how it spends it's daily life, and some recent news on them, this is the perfect article for you!

                    

                                                       ~ Habitat ~

    It is obvious from the Galapagos tortoise's name that they come from the Galapagos Islands, a place where animals are found that can be found nowhere else on our planet. If you didn't already know, the Galapagos islands are owned by Ecuador.

        Galapagos tortoises have a lazy, but mighty routine, every day they wake up, and graze on a fresh field of green grass, when they are done, they bask in the humid heat until they're next meal. Galapagos tortoises live in colonies, and normally stay in a group for breeding, and they travel together when they finish grazing on one field of grass. Galapagos tortoises travel through the rocky, mountainous, geography of the Galapagos islands to find a new field of grass and vegetation to feed on. Galapagos tortoises are similar to cows in a way, both very large, and just like a farmer moves his cows from one field to another to allow grass to grow back in the one that the cows were grazing on, Galapagos tortoises allow the vegetation to grow back in one area, while they feed on another. 

                                            ~ Effects On Environment ~

     Because Galapagos tortoises maintain they're island's vegetation, and they're fecal matter provides a great fertilizer, Galapagos tortoises are a great animal to have around. They, just like many other tortoises help the habitat they live in so much, that is why conservation projects have brought Galapagos tortoise eggs into they're facilities, and have successfully hatched and released the babies into the wild, this is important because zoologists bred different localities of tortoises with each other and created completely new sun-species a long time ago, which was a very bad mistake, and over time, we started to loose the localities they "bred away".

                        I hope this article was educational to you as they viewer, and defiantly check out my YouTube channel for more information on both turtles and tortoises