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  • Giant Tortoise (Chelonodis nigra microphyes) from Urvina Bay, Isabela, Galapagos.  This is a rather small specimen, probably a sub-adult.
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  • Galapagos Giant Tortois, Chelonodis nigra. Unidentified subspecies
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  • Giant Tortoise, Chelonodis nigra hoodensis, from Espanola Galapagos.  Controlled conditions.
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  • "Harriet".  The famous Galapagos Giant Turtle (Geochelone elephantopus) posibly collected by Charles Darwin at Isla Santa Cruz (Galapagos islands) in 1835. It is said that the turtle was brought back to London with HMS Beagle (the famous ship that carried Darwing around the World for 5 years) and on the same ship to Brisbane, Australia in 1842.  "Harriet" lived Australia Zoo near Brisbane until she died peacefully on 23rd June 2006, about 176 years old.
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  • Red Ear Slider, Trachemys scripta. (Controlled conditions)
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  • Australian Snapping Turtle (Elseya sp.) from Broken River, Queensland, Australia.
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  • Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas, in a sea grass bed at Green Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
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  • Australian Snapping Turtle (Elseya sp.) from Broken River, Queensland, Australia.
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  • Giant Tortoise (Chelonodis nigra porteri) from Santa Cruz, Galapagos.
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  • Green Sea Turtle, (Chelonia mydas) from the Maldives.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • Green Sea Turtle, (Chelonia mydas) from the Maldives.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • Giant Tortoise (Chelonodis nigra porteri) from Santa Cruz, Galapagos.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • The endangered Assam roofed turtle (Pangshura sylhetensis) from the river Diphlu in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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  • Spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) from the spiny forest of Berenty, southern Madagascar.
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  • Serrated hinged terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus) from Zimanga, South Africa.
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  • Tortoise hatchling and egg at Arrrnaldo Tortoise Breeding Center, Isabela, Galapagos.
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  • Red Ear Slider (Trachemys scripta) taking a ride on a Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer). Controlled conditions
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  • Serrated hinged terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus) from Zimanga, South Africa.
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  • Serrated hinged terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus) from Zimanga, South Africa.
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  • Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) from Maasai Mara, Kenya.
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  • Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) from Maasai Mara, Kenya.
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  • Yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) From Lake Garzacocha, Ecuador.
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  • Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) from Kruger NP, South Africa.
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  • Pair of leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) from Kruger NP, South Africa.
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  • Lonesome George, the only surviving specimen of the giant tortoise of the species Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni that was one found on Pinta Island, Galapagos. This only specimen of its kind  left was when this photo was taken in 2011 kept at Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz, the Galapagos. Born around 1910, died 24. June 2012.  Photo from July 2011.
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