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	Tortoise - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		As with its aquatic cousins, the turtle and the terrapin, the tortoise is shielded from predators by a shell.
		The giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution, since the isolated populations on the different islands, although descended from a common ancestor, had diverged to different forms.
		Aldabra Giant Tortoise Dipsochelys dussumieri from Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/o/r/Tortoise.html (446 words)

	Galapagos Islands Guided Tour - The Endangered Galapagos Giant Tortoise
		Tortoise droppings, probably not more than a few years old, were found in the island in 1981, so there is a possibility that a second individual of this subspecies still exists (16).
		Large numbers of tortoises were removed from the island in the early nineteenth century by whaling vessels, and introduced goats reduced the coastal lowlands to deserts, restricting the remaining tortoises to the interior (8).
		MacFarland, C.G., Villa, J. and Toro, B. The Galapagos Giant Tortoises (Geochelone elephantopus) I. Status of the Surviving Populations.
	www.discovergalapagos.com /tortoise.html (1810 words)

	CTTC - The Galapagos Tortoise Conservation Program: the Plight and Future for the Pinzon Island Tortoise by Fred ...
		These facts encouraged the collection of large numbers of tortoises and it was only the collapse of the whaling industry in the latter part of the 19th century that prevented the extinction of the Pinzón population (Metzger and Marlow, 1986).
		Cayot, L.J. Ecology of giant tortoises (Geochelone elephantopus) in the Galápagos Islands.
		Pritchard, P.C.H. The toughest tortoises in the Galápagos.
	www.tortoise.org /archives/pinzon.html (2827 words)

	Galapagos tortoise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tortoises are land-dwelling turtles of the familyTestudinidae (in Great Britain the name refers to any non-marine turtle),.
		doubt that this tortoise is an aboriginal inhabitant of the Galapagos;.of tortoise from the Galapagos, but he does not know from which islands galapagos tortoise..
		This GalapagosTortoise is merely a stand-in for the extinct giant tortoises of.
	www.readrecipe.com /galapagos-tortoise.html (278 words)

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