These guys are huge and OLD. Our naturalist said this one is over 150 yrs old. They said they were hunted by sailors because they can go almost a year without eating. So they would stack them up live in the hold and pull one out for dinner. They were alive so they wouldn’t spoil. The darwin center has a program to repopulate the various islands with Tortoise.
Guess there were no vegetarian sailors.
Such interesting markings and face! Is that a little leaf on it’s head?
Shall I say he’s an ‘oldie but a goodie’?
That IS a leaf…
They said he’s over 100 yrs old!
An impressive sight.