Galapagos giant tortoise

Add The carapace of the Rapagos tortoise is like a huge pot. You can't imagine how strong its hands and feet are. You can wear its huge carapace. If you think the turtle moves slowly, you are wrong. That's right, Galapagos tortoises move very quickly and with great will.

The Galapagos tortoise is the largest tortoise in existence. With a body length of 1.2 meters, adult male tortoises are larger than females. The body weight of adult males is about 272-320 kg, while that of females is 136-180 kg. Lifespan is estimated to be up to 200 years. The head is big and the neck is long. The center of the carapace is high, with 5 vertebral shields; 4 rib shields on each side; 9 marginal shields on each side, the front and rear edges are slightly serrated and slightly raised; 1 cervical shield; and the hip shield is single and larger. The hands and feet are strong and columnar. The carapace, hands and feet, head and tail are khaki to bluish-black in color, and some individual vertebrae and ribs have irregular black spots, and the skin is loose and wrinkled.

The Galapagos tortoise has a large, heavy, bony brown back carapace. Galapagos tortoises are sexually dimorphic, the most obvious being male and female. In the horseback-shelled species, the male has more angles and a higher front opening, giving it a more extreme appearance. . Male turtles of all subspecies generally have longer tails and a shorter concave thickened edge on the tail of the shell to facilitate mating.

Because the ecological environment of different islands in the Galapagos Islands is significantly different, the tortoises of different subspecies have different morphologies, showing There are no typical carapace shapes.

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