CHAPTER 3 THE CREATURES OF THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS Ariadna Cano Elena Rincón Albert Sánchez Moisés Ramírez
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THE ENCICLOPEDY OF THE CREATURES OF THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS
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LAND IGUANA
MARINE IGUANA
Is the only iguana that life in the ocean, and he have black skin and this skin turns into red when the iguana female want to attract the male
They are from the Galåpagos Island, they like a lot of the cactus and they stop on his hind legs to arrive to the flower. They have a rough and resistent tongue, so they don’t need to remove the thorn cactus before eat it
PENGUIN
BOOBIES
It is the only penguin of the equatorial waters, and also what inhabits more to the north, since to the rest find to the south hemisphere
Blue legs, red hoof and masked. They could immerse eight meters in the water to catch their prey
MARINE TORTOISE
CORMORAN
The Pacific green sea tortoise is the only tortoise that lives in the Galapagos
The Cormoran is the only one that doesn’t fly. She bracme in a great swimmer and lose their capacity to fly
LAND TORTOISE
LIZARD OF LAVA
The tortoise is from the Geochelone elephantopus group and there’re divide in 14 subspecies. These species are different for their size, and their shell, the neck and the tips
No so shiny, sometimes could be stained in Orange or red on their face. There are 7 kinds in the island
PINZONES There are 13 species, different for their size and their baek. The form of the beak is different in all the spices, it depends form their food. All the finches are black or brown
GALAPAGO’S ALBATROS
THE FRAGATES
It’s very nice in the air and could be during months and years in the ocean. To take off and land, they form a line such as the planes in the airport waiting indications of the control tower
They are very lazy to fish, so they prefer to distract the piquers to stole their eat. In the courting the male blow up a red skin layer under his beak