The Life of Animals | Galapagos Tortoise | The Galapagos tortoises, like most other species of tortoise, is a herbivores spending its time grazing on grass and low trees. The Galapagos tortoise is a very quiet, peaceful and lazy animal with the Galapagos tortoises waking up early in the morning to Basque in the sun until the enormous body of the Galapagos tortoise has warmed up.
The Galapagos tortoise is a very slow moving animal with the Galapagos tortoises having a top speed of less than 1 mile an hour! The Scaly skin on the exposed legs and head of the Galapagos tortoises also acts a layer of armor to protect the Galapagos tortoise from incurring any damage the Galapagos tortoise is moving around.
The Galapagos tortoises (Galápagos Giant tortoise) was first documented by Charles Darwin last century he went on his trip to the Galapagos islands. The Galapagos Tortoise is the Biggest species of tortoise in the modern world with some Galapagos tortoises Reaching more than 4ft long! The Galapagos tortoise is also one The Longest living species of tortoise with a number of Galapagos tortoises getting older than 150!
