Galapagos Tortoise Fact File

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                                                   Galapagos Tortoise Fact File

                                                        Made By: Kayla Pringle     

                     

1. A Galapagos Tortoises moves about 55 metres in ten minutes and 330 in an hour.                                                                                                                                           2.Male Tortoises grow larger than the females.

3. Male tortoises can grow up to be over 1 metre long.     

4. Male tortoises can weigh 150 to 200 kilograms.      

5. One tortoises is know to live up to 160 years.              

6. Galapagos tortoises can survive for several months without water or food.

7. The Galapagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the tortoises species. 

8. The Galapagos tortoises has a brown, protective shell around it’s body.

9. The upper side of the shell is called carapace and the lower part of the shell is called                   

plastron.

10. They have a strong jaw, without teeth.