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Websites Movebank
https://www.movebank.org/
Charles Darwin Foundation At the Movebank website, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of
https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/ Animal Behavior, you can view tracks for GPS-tagged giant tortoises
The website has information about the foundation as well as links to as well as data from researchers studying other animals all over
articles about their research and conservation projects.
the world.
Galápagos Conservancy San Diego Zoo: Giant Tortoise
https://www.galapagos.org/ https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/galapagos-tortoise
The organization is dedicated to protecting the ecosystem of the The zoo keeps giant tortoises and has a page with information about
Galápagos Islands. Read about the islands and wildlife as well as the the creatures, including their habitat, diet, and family life.
organization’s projects.
Galápagos Tortoise Movement Ecology Programme
http://www.gianttortoise.org/
Read more about the research team featured in this book and the
tortoises they study.

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agriculture, 41 health, 31–32, 38, 47–51 native plants, 30, 33, 39, 42–43
Aldabra Atoll, 19 migration, 5, 7, 25, 27, 29, 30–32, 35–39, 41–42, 47 natural selection, 13–14, 22, 50
nests, 5, 27–31, 43, 55 Nieto Claudin, Ainoa, 9, 47, 49, 51, 56–57
Berlanga, Tomás de, 17
Blake, Stephen, 5–6, 8, 16, 25, 27, 28–32, 35, origins, 12, 14, 19, 22 Oleas, Reyna, 41–42
37–39, 42, 44–45, 54–56 population, 21, 22–23, 33, 47, 55 Peña, Irene, 9, 48–49
breeding center, 23–24, 53 reproduction, 20, 29, 38, 47–48, 54–55
Galápagos Islands, 5, 7, 11–17, 19, 21–25, 27, plate tectonics, 11
Cabrera, Freddy, 5, 8, 27–31, 33, 35, 41–42, 44, 56 32–33, 36, 39, 41–43, 47–49, 53–55 Plaza, Roberto, 41–42, 45
Charles Darwin Foundation, 8–9, 22–23, 33 Galápagos Marine Reserve, 25 Project Isabela, 33
Charles Darwin Research Station, 23–24, 43, 48, 53 Galápagos National Park, 22–24, 28–29, 33, 39 protecting nests, 23, 28–29, 30–31, 33
Darwin, Charles, 14–15, 21–22, 25, 36, 41, 50, 59 Galápagos Tortoise Movement Ecology radio transmitter, 6, 28, 33, 35
Deem, Sharon, 8, 47–49, 51, 56–57 Programme, 5, 8–9, 35–37, 47 research, 6–7, 16, 19, 21–25, 29, 31–32, 35, 36,
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 13, 48–49, 51 garúa, 25, 35, 39 38–39, 42–43, 44–45, 47–49, 50–51, 55–57
GPS tags, 36–37, 42, 44–45, 56
Ecuador, 7, 19, 22, 45, 51 Great Barrier Reef, 55 sailors, 19, 33
El Chato Tortoise Reserve, 27, 38 guava, 27, 36, 39 Sanchez, Gabriel Salas, 27, 55
El Niño, 54 sea lions, 12, 16, 54
endemic species, 12, 15, 43 iguanas, 7, 12–15, 24, 43, 54 sea turtles, 16, 54–55
evolution, 11, 13–14, 15, 22, 49, 50 invasive species, 7, 24, 39, 42–43, 54–55 Soto, Diego Ellis, 39
fire ants, 29, 43
Galápagos giant tortoises goats, 24, 33 temperature, 20, 30–32, 38, 51, 54
anatomy, 20–21 rats, 23, 43 tourism, 22–24, 27, 35, 55
dung, 16, 29, 39 volcanoes, 5–6, 11–12, 23, 25, 33, 35
ecology, 16–17, 41–42, 53, 56 maps, 17, 35–37, 39 Alcedo, 47–49
habitat, 7, 11, 21, 42, 44–45 Montemar, 41, 45
Movebank, 35, 37

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