Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid

September 21, 2015June 25, 2016Mei-Mei

From Santa Cruz.

This Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) shows off the grid-like pattern of his shell. This is a fairly small tortoise; they frequently get to be 400-600 lbs with a carapace length of around 3-5 ft. We saw many others of varying sizes on Santa Cruz, both in the wild like this one and also at the Charles Darwin Research Station, where certain subspecies are part of a captive breeding program.

badfish September 22, 2015 / 12:41 am

pretty cool take on the prompt

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- Mei-Mei September 22, 2015 / 9:51 pm
  
  Thanks, gotta work with what I’ve got lol
  
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  - badfish September 24, 2015 / 11:37 pm
    
    like all of us!
    
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Tina Schell September 22, 2015 / 8:05 am

LOL, how creative! Love your choice this week.

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- Mei-Mei September 22, 2015 / 9:50 pm
  
  Thanks 🙂
  
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yhealthy2000 September 22, 2015 / 9:53 pm

Cool fella:) Grid all over…handsome photo.

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