Sea World- Galapagos Island by flower71000

The Galapagos may be best known for one of it's early visitors. It was a young Charles Darwin whose visit to the Galapagos changed the way we think of the world. Darwin saw what thousands of visitors see each year - that through the process of evolution the animals have adapted on different environment depending on the islands environment.
Galapagos is home to endemic birds and animals including Galapagos Penguin, Flightless Cormorant, and the Marine Iguana the only sea going Iguana in the world. To survive in these stark volcanic islands these iguana took to the ocean to feed on algae.

Maybe the best know of all Galapagos wildlife is the Galapagos Tortoise. The tortoise's ability to survive months without food or water made it possible for these animals to survive the sea journey thousands of years ago. Once in Galapagos the tortoise filled the role normally played by large mammals - that of the dominate grazer. In Galapagos the tortoise evolved into different species on each island - and in the case of Isabela multiple species on the same island as they lived in different environments.

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