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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

But the Tortoises and Iguanas (and some other animals, probably) did not come from the nearby South American landmass via what is now Ecuador. It is not the case that the islands we see today were populated by various continental forms of animals and plants which then differentiated. This included some birds as well as a fox.

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