The Galápagos giant tortoise, which is the largest species of turtle in the world, weighing about 400 kilograms and 180 centimeters in length and almost live for more than a hundred years!
The Galapagos giant tortoise lives in the Galapagos Archipelago, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It lived in the Pacific and Indian Ocean tropical island, a South American west coast of the Galapagos Islands and the Indian Ocean, the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra Island, and more.
The mating season is from December to August, the females come to lay their eggs from the cooler high altitudes in the warmer coastal areas. The nesting season begins in late June and lasts until November. 4-17 eggs are laid with weights 80-150 g is the incubation period of up to 250 days. The hatching weight of the pups is about 60-100 g can be up to one month left in the nest box until they dig together usually after a rain, to the surface.
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