Perhaps the most famous animal of the Galapagos Islands is the Giant Galapagos Tortoise. I was always a big fan of Harriet, so much so that when she passed away Mum had to write and tell me (I was in Guatemala, I think), I don´t think she wrote and told me about Steve´s death. (Harriet was a Galapagos Tortoise taken by Charles Darwin to England, but the climate in England didn´t suit Harriot (who would have thought it!?), so after a while they took her to Brisbane to live. The story goes that she roamed freely in the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, but people aren´t very responsible and so it was eventually decided it would be better that she went to a zoo. And so, Harriet was moved to Australia Zoo.... the one Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) owned. Her favourite food was hibiscus flowers.)
In the Charles Darwin Research centre, ne and a big Tortoise.
Me being a tortoise.
One in the wild.
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