It’s
Charles Darwin’s birthday (he would be 205 nowadays) and Galapagos Day (the
islands were claimed by Ecuador 182 years ago),the perfect cue for a story
approximately a special reptilian petWhen in the Galapagos, Charles Darwin and his Beagle chums ate a couple of dozen giant tortoises, and tossing their empty shells over board en route to Tahiti. But in his Narrative of the voyage,captain Robert FitzRoy made it clear that a few small tortoises had survived. “Several were brought alive to England,” he wrote.
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Source: theguardian.com