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

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However, this is not the case with the Galapagos Tortoises. Some of the tortoises have shells and necks and heads configured for picking leaves off of bushes (involving a lot of reaching upwards) while others have shells, necks and heads that go more with grazing off the surface. In their habits I cannot point out a single difference.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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She traveled to Antarctica and South Georgia, East Antarctica and the Ross Sea (“deep Antarctica”), Patagonia, the Falkland Islands, the small desert islands off the coast of Chile, the Galapagos, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Tristan da Cunha and Gough Islands in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.

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