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Album: ISLANDS OF THE TORTOISES

"..By far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago is that the different islands to a considerable extent are inhabited by a different set of beings. I never dreamed that islands, about fifty or sixty miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, placed under a quite similar climate, rising to a nearly equal height, would have been differently tenanted.." Charles Darwin 1845

Giant Tortoise

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle in such a fix to be so fertile. Ogden Nash