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Giant Tortoise
Giant Tortoise
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The giant tortoise of Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands lives mainly on the warm, dry lava soils near the ocean's edge. Only 15,000 of the original 250,000 giant Galápagos tortoises remain.
Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, recorded by O.H. Hewitt. All rights reserved./Craig Lovell/Corbis
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