All 13 Galapagos Turtles
- Cerro Azul Turtle
- Española Turtle
- Fernandina Turtle
- Floreana Turtle
- Pinta Turtle
- Pinzón Turtle
- San Cristóbal Turtle
- Santa Cruz Turtle
- Santiago Turtle
- Sierra Negra Turtle
- Volcán Alcedo Turtle
- Volcán Darwin Turtle
- Volcán Wolf Turtle
Galapagos Trips to giant Turtles
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The biggest turtles in the world can be found on the Galapagos Islands. You can find 14 species of turtles in Galapagos. The biggest turtles can be more than 600 pounds (300kg) and more than 3 feet (1m) long. You feel quite small if you stand next to a giant Galapagos turtle. Quit young also as these turtles have an average life of about 175 years or even more.
The largest turtles can be found on the Galapagos Islands : Santa Cruz and Isabella. Due to a lot of vegetation nearby the ground, these giant turtles have shorter necks than the turtles on the other Galapagos Islands.
Galapagos turtles adapt to vegetation
This
adaptation to the vegetation shows the variety in the different
Galapagos Turtles: low neck and low limbs for eating low vegetation,
turtle shell high up for those turtles that cruise the Galapagos
Islands with high vegetation.