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 Table of Contents **  Introduction………………………………………………………….3   ** ** Body…………………………………………………………………….4  ** ** Habitat…………………………………………………………………6 ** ** Diet………………………………………………………………………7 ** ** Endangered & How We Saved Them……………………..8 ** ** Fun Facts……………………………………………………………….9 ** ** Conclusion……………………………………………………………..10 ** **  About the author……………………………………………………11   ** **  Glossary………………………………………………………………….12 **    Introduction  <span style="height: 174.7pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 10.65pt; margin-top: 264.75pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 178.55pt; z-index: 16;">  <span style="height: 125.75pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 297.25pt; margin-top: 83.55pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: margin; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: margin; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 167.05pt; z-index: 7;">   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">o you know who the kings of all tortoises are? Do you know who the largest tortoise is? The answer to both questions is the Galapagos tortoise! Have you ever seen one of those? I have. There are many ** // __variations__ // ** of the Galapagos tortoise. The Galapagos tortoise lives in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands are off the coast of Ecuador in South America. The temperature in the Galapagos Islands doesn’t change much. It’s always hot or warm. Do you want to see a Galapagos tortoise? Come with me, let’s go to the Galapagos! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="height: 80.05pt; margin-left: 383.1pt; margin-top: 91.85pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 97.35pt; z-index: 13;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1.5pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0in; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; tab-stops: 153.0pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;">Body <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 69.4pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 6.0pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="height: 49.4pt; margin-left: 13.95pt; margin-top: 545.35pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 39.3pt; z-index: 12;"> <span style="height: 53.8pt; margin-left: 451.5pt; margin-top: 305.25pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; position: absolute; width: 83.65pt; z-index: 17;">     <span style="height: 79.45pt; margin-left: 506.85pt; margin-top: 463.1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 85.25pt; z-index: 14;">  <span style="height: 77.75pt; margin-left: -65.2pt; margin-top: 91.65pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 162.05pt; z-index: -19;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">o you want to learn about the Galapagos tortoise’s body? Well I’ll tell you. The Galapagos tortoise is one of the largest tortoises. An adult can be fifty-five inches [one hundred ten centimeters] long and weigh around six hundred lbs. The female is a little smaller. A female Galapagos tortoise can lay three to twenty- five eggs at once. That’s a lot of babies, don’t you think so? Once the eggs are laid they take four to eight months to hatch. After the Galapagos tortoises hatch, they have a much smaller shell then they do when they are older. A Galapagos tortoise’s shell is made of bone. That’s one big bone! A Galapagos tortoise’s shell actually has many uses like sun screen for the tortoise. Let me explain. A Galapagos tortoise is in the sun for a good portion of their lives so their shell protects them from the rays of the sun. Galapagos tortoise’s shells are big, heavy, and sometimes dome shaped. When Galapagos tortoises are scared or feel threatened they have a good way of protecting themselves. They tuck their head, tail, and sometimes their feet into their shell. The tortoise will stay like that until it thinks it’s safe to come out. I wish I could hide like that! But some tortoises do this different than others. This is because the shape and size of the tortoise’s shell is different depending on what island it lives on. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Enough about their shells lets go further down in the tortoise’s bodies to their feet! The Galapagos tortoise has big, strong feet to hold up its heavy shell. Their feet are also short and wide like an elephant foot. Another use for the tortoise’s feet is that they’re good for walking on rough dry land. I’m starting to think I should tell you about their eyes and the other facial features of the tortoise. Here is something about their eyes. A Galapagos tortoise has very ** // __keen__ // **eyesight. Do you want to sneak up on a Galapagos tortoise? Well you can’t because their always on the lookout for predators. Let’s go to the tortoise’s ears. A Galapagos tortoise has odd kinds of ears, because they’re not visible! Not even scientists know if a Galapagos tortoise can hear anything at all! If the tortoise can hear then they might only be able to feel ** // __vibrations__ // ** in the ground or sometimes in the water. <span style="height: 65.55pt; margin-left: 511.1pt; margin-top: 181.6pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 87.5pt; z-index: 15;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="height: 109.6pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: -0.1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 142.5pt; z-index: -16;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now that I’ve told you about their ears I’ll tell you about their sensitivity and nose. A Galapagos tortoise is actually very sensitive to the touch. They feel everything through their feet, tail, and shell. Their shell is able to feel because it has many nerves inside of it. Since it has these nerves, the shell of a tortoise is the largest seining organ. A Galapagos tortoise’s nose can smell things pretty far away. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you want to know how slow they are? Well they are the slowest land animal and the slowest land animal of all. The Galapagos tortoise can live over one hundred years and that’s not unusual for them. All these interesting facts conclude this chapter on the Galapagos tortoise’s body.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Habitat <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 71.0pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 25.1pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="height: 48.85pt; margin-left: 48.75pt; margin-top: 313.75pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 64.55pt; z-index: 10;"> <span style="height: 172.2pt; margin-left: 351.7pt; margin-top: 469.4pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 154.95pt; z-index: 9;">  <span style="height: 73.15pt; margin-left: 420.9pt; margin-top: 50.55pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 79.2pt; z-index: 11;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">n this chapter you’ll learn where the Galapagos tortoise lives and how the islands were formed. The only place you’ll find the Galapagos tortoise is on land because they are tortoises not turtles and tortoises only live on land and turtles live in the water as well as on land. Here is a good trivia question for you; are some of the Galapagos different than others? The answer is yes. Some of the islands are small, dry, and desert-like. Others are larger, wetter islands with forest-like areas. With all these islands you may be wondering how many islands there are. There are actually around fifteen large islands and forty smaller ones! I bet you’re thinking how sixty-five islands were made. Well the Galapagos Islands were formed by volcanoes millions of years ago. The volcanoes erupted again and again and the lava eventually hardened on the top of the water and made all these islands. The islands were formed six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador, South America. On the Galapagos Islands fifteen different types of tortoises were developed and eleven are alive today! Do you know why there are different types of the Galapagos tortoise? Well the reason is that each Galapagos tortoise ** // __adapts__ // ** to the ** // __conditions__ // ** on each of the islands. That’s all there is to know about the Galapagos tortoise’s habitat.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Diet <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 73.1pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 6.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="height: 127.25pt; margin-left: 286.15pt; margin-top: 246.3pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 140.15pt; z-index: -17;"> <span style="height: 99.05pt; margin-left: -46.2pt; margin-top: 81pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 132.7pt; z-index: -18;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">o you know a thing about what a Galapagos tortoise eats? If you don’t I do. I’ll tell you something, Galapagos tortoises are herbivores, so they only eat greens, plants, and herbs. The greens the Galapagos tortoise eats in the wild are grasses, vines, cactus fruit, the fruit of the Manzullo tree, and the prickly pear. However, in zoos Galapagos tortoises are fed a variety of foods. Like in the Philadelphia Zoo they are fed a commercial mix of nuts and berries as well as salt marsh hay, carrots, apples, kale, iodized salt, and mineral powder. The tortoises are fed thirty pounds of food each week. In the San Diego Zoo the Galapagos tortoise is fed kale, collard, mustard, dandelion greens, bock Choy, and seasonal fruits and vegetables. In the Los Angeles Zoo the keepers feed the Galapagos tortoises one pound of bananas, carrots, and apples, two bunches of spinach, one papaya, lawn grass, and cactuses. It is much the same in the Honolulu Zoo where the Galapagos tortoises are fed natural grasses, bananas, apples, papayas, and lettuce. In the Phoenix Zoo they feed the Galapagos tortoise romaine lettuce, spinach, alfalfa, carrots, cucumbers, and green peppers. In the Brookfield Zoo, in Chicago the Galapagos tortoises are fed lettuce, sweet potatoes, carrots, and vegetable biscuits. Whoa! I’ve eaten carrots and lettuce. Who knew that was tortoise food. With all of this food and water how does the Galapagos tortoise hold in all this water inside? Well, that is actually one of their talents. They can hold water in their body which lets them survive during the dry season. With this talent they can go up to a year without eating or drinking! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 73.1pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 45.45pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 150%;">Endangered and How We Saved Them <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="height: 85.4pt; margin-left: 531.25pt; margin-top: 237.45pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 69.4pt; z-index: 8;"> <span style="height: 69.85pt; margin-left: 57.5pt; margin-top: 237.5pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: page; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 12pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 91.35pt; z-index: -4;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">adly the Galapagos tortoise is endangered. One of the reasons they are ** // __endangered__ // ** is because animals like to eat their eggs. Some of the animals include pigs, donkeys, goats, and black rats. The only predator of the Galapagos tortoise that is originally from the Galapagos Islands is the Galapagos hawk. This hawk preys on the eggs and newborn tortoises. The worst predators of the Galapagos tortoise are humans, especially ** // __whalers__ // **. The whalers catch and load them onboard their ships. When the whalers run out of food they kill and eat the tortoises. Recorded in the logs of whalers between 1811 and 1844, on one hundred five ships there were fifteen thousand Galapagos tortoises captured. Not only whalers kill Galapagos tortoises**. ** During the 1900s the tortoises were hunted for their body oil and museum collections. From all this hunting there are only 3,000 to 5,000 Galapagos tortoises left on the islands. Finally in the year 1959 the government of Ecuador attempted to save the Galapagos tortoises along with the other endangered plants and animals on the islands. Another way the Galapagos tortoise is getting saved is by the Galapagos National Park Service. They hunt and kill the wild animals that eat the grass the Galapagos tortoise eats. Another way the Galapagos tortoise is being saved is by the Charles Darwin Research Center. They take eggs from the wild and hatch them so they won’t get eaten by other animals. By all this help the population of the Galapagos tortoise is slowly. <span style="height: 153.6pt; margin-left: 188.4pt; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 29.58pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 28.68pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 14.62pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 4.32pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 189.6pt; z-index: 19;"> <span style="height: 11.5pt; margin-left: 114.05pt; margin-top: 83.2pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 9.66pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 16.68pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 18.81pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 6.72pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 65.75pt; z-index: 21;">  <span style="height: 9.6pt; margin-left: 286.1pt; margin-top: 182.6pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 11.58pt; mso-wrap-distance-left: 15.72pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 16.57pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 6.72pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 29.75pt; z-index: 20;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Fun Facts <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 73.15pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 3.75pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">id you know that Galapagos comes from the Spanish word Galapago which means tortoise? Are tortoises turtles too? The answer is yes because turtles are divided into groups and tortoises are one of those groups so tortoises are turtles too. One of the oldest living Galapagos tortoises was named Harriet. She lived to be one hundred seventy six years old. I wish I could live that long! Speaking of age, the first live Galapagos tortoise born in captivity was in the San Diego Zoo in 1961. Did you know that the Galapagos tortoise isn’t the only tortoise in the world? They’re actually thirty nine other tortoises in the world. Baby Galapagos tortoises never see their mother. The female Galapagos tortoise buries her eggs then leave. During the Galapagos tortoise mating season it is very loud. The tortoises make loud ** // __grunting__ // ** sounds that can be heard a mile away! Did you know you can give a Galapagos tortoise as a present? Well Captain Cook presented the oldest known Galapagos tortoise to the Tongan royal family in 1777. Male Galapagos tortoises fight over a female. They charge toward their opponent as hard as they can.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: page; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-left: 70.5pt; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-top: 29.8pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 150%;">Conclusion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">verything you just read is all the facts I know about the Galapagos tortoise. I hope with a chapter about body, habitat, and all the other chapters I taught you something. I know I learned a thing or two. I hope I persuaded you to go to the zoo and see a Galapagos tortoise. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">About the Author <span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">My name is Gabriel Martin Escobar. I have a dog named Delphia. She is an English springer spaniel. I have two brothers named Alec and Nicholas. My mom is from Troy, Ohio and my dad is from Bogotá, Columbia. My favorite foods are pizza and pasta. I love writing stories. That’s all there is to know about me. ** That’s me! **     Glossary ** __ Adapt __ **** : Get used to…………………………………………………………………………..Page 6  ** ** __ Condition __ **** : How something or someone is………………………………………..Page 6  ** ** __ Endangered __ **** : Cause danger to…………………………………………………………..Page 8  ** ** __ Grunting __ **** : Loud horse like noise………………………………………………………..Page 9  ** ** __ Keen __ **** : Sharp or good eyesight……………………………………………………………Page 4  ** ** __ Variations __ **** : Different kinds of something……………………………………………Page 3  ** ** __ Vibrations __ **** : Small rapid movements……………………………………………………Page 5   ** ** __ Whalers: __ **** Hunter of whales…………………………………………………………………Page 8  **
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