Hundreds of thousands of tortoises once roamed the highlands.
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The dancing crabs of the Galapagos
You cannot miss the blazing bright red and yellow Sally Lightfoot Crabs.
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These lizards with a face only a mother iguana could love are vegetarians that swim out to sea to feed on the algae below.
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These pirates make their living plundering food from other birds as they return from feeding.
Read More »The importance of being dull
Birds, lizards and other wildlife in the Galapagos have adopted the basic color scheme of the islands - basaltic black and Palo Santo gray.
Read More »Darwin’s mockingbirds
The mockingbirds of the Galapagos tell the same story as Darwin's famous finches.
Read More »Perched at the top of the food chain
The wildlife of the Galapagos are tame and approachable because they have few predators. This is one of them.
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