World’s BIGGEST TORTOISE! The Giant Galapagos Tortoise, 5 fascinating facts!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- World’s BIGGEST TORTOISE! The Giant Galapagos Tortoise, 5 fascinating facts!
5. A LIFE OF LEISURE
It may not surprise everyone to find that these gentle giants like to sleep, a lot - often for around 16 hours a day, depending on air temperature and food availability; basically, if they're not eating (or foraging) they're sleeping.
4. UNIQUE “FIGHTING” TECHNIQUE
When an occasional fight breaks out, male tortoises will face-off against each other. Instead of biting their opponent or exchanging blows, tortoises glare ferociously, widely open their mouths and stretch their necks and heads up as high as they can. Regardless of the tortoises’ actual size, the fight is won by achieving the highest head position - the battle is over when the loser pulls his head in and lets out a noisy vanquished hiss.
3. AMAZING ABILITY TO LIVE WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER
Due to their extraordinarily slow metabolism and large internal water storage capacity, they can survive for up to a year without eating or drinking (this ability made them a popular food source among merchant sailors, explorers and pirates who could keep the animals on-board for long journeys without having to care for them).
2. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST
Galapagos tortoises are indeed the largest species of the tortoise world - with the heaviest recorded individuals weighing over 400 kilograms (880 lb) and measuring 1.87 meters (6.1 ft) in length.
1. THEY CAN LIVE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME
As one of the longest lived vertebrates on earth, Galapagos tortoises in the wild routinely live beyond 100 years - with a captive specimen living for at least 171 years."
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So how tortoises fight. "mine's bigger than yours HAHAHAHA." "Shut up muh fucka... It's just cold out here"
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Yea tortoises XD soooo cute and cuddly
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Great video! Keep up the good work :)
They look like they would had more IQ than Stephen Hawkins!
'The battle is won by who has the highest head position'... Cute!
It would b like if a war was decided if 2 generals met in the middle of a desert somewhere and just whipped em' out to see who's is bigger.
:O can i have 1
1.87 meters is not 6.1 feet
greaz video!! why they are called tortoise and not turtles?? is there a difference??
my personal nomber one here is... i can´t decide... the incredible hight of nearly 2 metters, or or that they can live without drinking and eating, but especcially without drinking for a whole year.
the age of 171years is even amazing, but i thought they can get over 250 years,that must be other turtles, but one kind of tutles can get such a high age.sorry i forgott witch kind.
Thank you very much!
I think main difference is that turtles are water-dwelling and tortoises are land-dwelling. The fact that tortoises can live so long is incredible... always wondered whether their extremely slow approach to life is their secret to longevity? Fast twitch, fast moving animals with high heart-rates (like small birds for instance) don't live very long at all.
very interesting point of view, with the heart rates, i think.i´ve never seen it that way, but i think you could be right.
I don't think moving slowly is the key to living longer my reason is because sloths which are the slowest animals on planet only live from 20-40 years so yeah but that is a very good observation.
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I always wanted a pet Galapagos tortoise
leatherback turtles can weight more than twice of that turtle largest found is 907kg
my fiance is obsessively convinced that we are one day going to own one of these , that we are going to name him rodney, and he is going to be our guard turtle. no. no.
I have been to the Galapagos and you don't want to own these magnificent, enormous tortoises. I have also taken care of African tortoises at a conservation center because they were illegally brought into the country. As they got to be about 50 pounds in NYC, in the snow they were given up! I know you were joking but it is a real problem. These are dinosaurs. They have been on the earth longer than humans and many species of tortoises and sea turtles are endangered. It is very sad. Diving with a sea turtle creates a feeling that is difficult to explain but they are truly amazing creatures!
Awesome facts as well as beautiful pictures.. Nice share
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Awesome
I swear if reincarnation is a thing, I’d want to reincarnate as a Galapagos Tortoise.
Such amazing creatures! There is one on display at Perth Zoo that is over 100. Stately old fellow!!
Good to hear there's one in Australia that old!
They only breathe 4-5 times a minute and that's the secret for there long life..200+ years....!
Wow ......
Really man 🙁
I think the secret is not the frequency of breath per minutes, but how deep the breath and how slow to release it.
1000 pounds,
The thing is fricking 1 metric ton heavy!
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1000 pounds is just under half the weight of a metric ton, 1 ton does not = 1000 lbs.. it is 2204 lbs
Fighting, do they head butt like the smaller species, like Russian or Hermann?
Real life dinosaurs
I WISH I HAD LIKE THIS ANY OF THESE TORTOISE
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Baliram raj
They look like they would had more IQ than Stephen Hawkins!
They are very interesting and learning facts!
dat's nice that they sleep all day :3
Rick Jenkins Ha... might be the secret to a long life. Thanks for watching.
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As always, very informative. I once found a desert tortoise in my backyard when I was eight years old. The neighbors across the street said it was their missing pet and that it had been missing from their yard for over two years. But later the neighbors next door claimed it was theirs, missing from their yard just recently. I believed the claim of neighbors next door, feeling their claim carried more weight, but unfortunately I had already surrendered the tortoise to the neighbors across the street. And they soon lost it again. Awkward.
Thank you, Jim, we like to inform...
Do you reckon that desert tortoise might still be alive? Stranger things have happened...
Incredible World very possible. But that tortoise liked to cross streets against traffic too much for it's own good and safety.
Teenage galapagos Wrestling turtles!
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they are now extinct as of late last year
I'm pretty sure you're talking about a different tortoise species.
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He is likely talking about the death of Lonesome George who was the last of his subspecies of Galapagos Tortoises. There were original 15 different kinds of Galapagos Giant Tortoises, but we've wiped out about half a dozen of them so far.
YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Humans undefeated WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck those turtles, say hi to the dodo's and Sabertooth Tiger's BEEYautch!!!!!!
I thought the A39 Tortoise was the largest tortoise. One still lives in Bovington England. I even got to pet it's 80 ton body.
funny with all that sleep you would think that he would be fast AF or more energetic
Ho-Lee Chit I'm sorry but that was funny😂😂😂😂😂
this is so fake it,s funny
What looks fake?