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.
pretty cool take on the prompt
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Thanks, gotta work with what I’ve got lol
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like all of us!
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LOL, how creative! Love your choice this week.
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Thanks 🙂
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Cool fella:) Grid all over…handsome photo.
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