- They can last 6-12 months without any food or water (Haines)

- They can be as tall as 4 feet and weigh as much as 475lb (Haines)

- They can travel long distances at 0.18 miles per hour (Haines)

- The Galapagos is named after the tortoise as Galapago means tortoise in Spanish (Haines) 

- Their life expectancy is 100-150 years old (Haines)

- Their mating season is January to March (Haines)

- The worst enemy to a young tortoise is humans (Haines)

- They are herbivores (Haines)

- From the beginning of the 1600-1899 over 100,000 Galapagos tortoises were hunted for food (Haines)

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