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Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Aldabrachelys gigantea
Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles carries roughly 100,000 giant tortoises — many times the number in all of Galapagos, making it by far the largest population of giant tortoises on Earth, and one of the last places where a reptile is the dominant grazing herbivore. Their grazing h…
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- The Aldabra Giant Tortoise is one of only two giant tortoise species remaining in the world, the other being the Galápagos tortoise.
- Aldabra tortoises can drink through their nostrils, drawing water from puddles too shallow to submerge the mouth. Jonathan, an Aldabra tortoise living on Saint Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal. In 2020 a female on Fregate Island was filmed deliberately stalking and killing a noddy tern chick and eating it — the first documented case of a wild giant tortoise hunting.
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