MATURE GALOP'S

[ALDABRAMAN]

Here is a picture we recently took of our friends Galapagos tortoises. The one on the left is a female and the one on the right is a male, both were stunning!

 

[guille24]

I like the females face she looks so happy !!

 

[guille24]

Do you know From what island are they from ? Or could be ?? I love Galapagos tortoises ! I want to go to the islands so bad !

 

[dmmj]

Quite the lookers, now I am torn between galap and aldab. what a choice.

 

[bouaboua]

Do you know how old are they?? Are they ready to breed? You say they are mature......Any possibility?? How many subspecies of them and how many as you know still around?

Sorry for so many question but this is rare........Very rare...

Love to see more photo of them. Thanks.

 

[Maggie Cummings]

The male just looks so smug! Thanks for the pix...

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Do you know From what island are they from ? Or could be ?? I love Galapagos tortoises ! I want to go to the islands so bad !

They come from the Galapagos Islands, don't they? I had to go and take a second look. Because of the OP's avatar and name, I thought at first they were Aldabrans. Guess I should read as well as look at the pictures...lol

 

[wellington]

Nice. Thanks for sharing. The Aldabras are still cuter

 

[guille24]

The reason I ask is because I want one from the Isabella island lol

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Here is another beautiful female!

 

[guille24]

Woow she's huge! And beautiful of curse

 

[bouaboua]

Here is another beautiful female!

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This one is also under your care now?? or with your friend??

WOW....Is all I can say. I may dump my wife for her.....Don't tell my wife I'm in love with another female.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

This one is also under your care now??

* No, these are not mine, they are located at another breeding program!

 

[Maverick]

The reason I ask is because I want one from the Isabella island lol

Are the subspecies from Isabelle the ones with the long necks?

 

[Saleama]

They come from the Galapagos Islands, don't they? I had to go and take a second look. Because of the OP's avatar and name, I thought at first they were Aldabrans. Guess I should read as well as look at the pictures...lol

There are different subs on the different islands that make up the Galopagos Islands. For example, Lonesome george was the last of the Pinto Island Galops. Each have different traits and characteristics specific to their island. It is really pretty interesting. You should read up on it. You can even see a video of the repopulation efforts being done with the seperate island sub species all hatched and raised for release to their "Home" island all from select adults that were harvested from the islands back in the 70's. They even DNA test animals from many different collections to find island specific traits in the hopes they will discover some of the extinct animals DNA out there somewhere.

 

[tortadise]

Isabella has 2 species on that island becki and vecini, of the vecini you have 4 sub species of them. These look like wolf(becki) and are pretty representative in the species shown here. They are the typical massive Galapagos around the wolf volcanoe.

 

[guille24]

Thanks @tortadise that's totally correct

 

[N2TORTS]

Very cool Greg ....thanks for the share !
Gave me an idea for a "Quickie Galap Thread"...................