CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION
Posted September 21st, 2008 by Bob the Sea LionAbout a 20-minute walk by road northeast of
Puerto Ayora, the Charles Darwin Research Station
(www.galapagos.org; h7:30am-5pm) can also
be reached by dry landing from Academy
Bay. It contains a national-park information
center; an informative museum in the Van
Straelen Exhibition Center (where a video
in English or Spanish is presented several
times a day); a baby-tortoise house with incubators,
where you can see hatchlings and
young tortoises; and a walk-in adult tortoise
enclosure, where you can meet the Galápagos
giants face to face. The tiny tortoises in
the baby-tortoise house are repatriated to
their home islands when they weigh about
1.5kg (or are about four years old) – some
2000 have been repatriated so far.
Several of the 11 remaining subspecies of
tortoise can be seen here. Lonesome George ,
the only surviving member of the Isla Pinta
subspecies, is also here. George’s chances
to shack up with a comely female become
more remote as he crawls slowly into his
ninth decade.
Other attractions include paths through
arid-zone vegetation, such as salt bush,
mangroves and prickly pear and other cacti.
A variety of land birds, including Darwin’s
finches, can be seen.
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7 Responses to “CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION”
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