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Homage to Chelonia
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I’VE always been fascinated by Chelonia. That’s the scientific name for turtles, tortoises and terrapins — hard-shelled, egg-laying reptiles.
As a small child I was taken to London Zoo to ride on the back of a huge Galapagos tortoise. My great hero Charles Darwin first brought several giant Galapagos tortoises back to London after his epic voyage on HMS Beagle.
Some lived over 170 years in captivity. Darwin discovered each island had a slightly different tortoise species, another proof of evolution.
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