I asked what happened to all of them. The Park ranger explained that throughout the nineteenth century, sailors ate giant tortosies. The giant tortoises were a nady source of fresh meat for sailors during their long sea voyages.
The tortoises could live for months without food and water.
They could be kept in the cargo hold of the ship until they were needed as food.
Tens of thousands of tortoises. tortoises were killed in this way. Giant tortoises were also preyed on by animals that people brought to the galapagos. As early as the sixteenth century, rats jumped off sailing ships, scurried onto the Islands, and feasted on tortoise eggs.
I was looking at the dark volcanic rock when suddenly i noyiced that the rock was moving! It wasn't of course. It was marine iguanas that were moving.
They were hundreds of them, all basking in the sun. We could get really close to them-they didn't seem to mind. They looked like little stone statues, sitting so still.
You could hear them sneezing. Miguel explained that sneezing expels salt,You could hear them sneezing. Miguel explained that they have special
My Dad and i went back to our cabin for the night. We tried to figure out the answer to the question. we think that reptiles would have been the best rafters because they can live on very little food and water and their skin is thick and tough. mammals would have died of thirst.
Amphibians like frogs and salamanders have thin skin that would have dried out in the hot sun. The same traits that helped the reptiles survive on rafts would help them survive after they reached the rocky shores of the Galapagos. I think we answered the question!
