Crowley County Combined Library

"Giant Galp̀agos tortoises have roamed the Galp̀agos Islands for thousands of years, but these creatures almost disappeared from their tropical habitat. Giant Galp̀agos Tortoise describes the world's largest tortoise, how sailors and invasive species caused its population to dwindle, and how habitat preservation and captive breeding have helped save the species."--

Rhyming text introduces the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands, such as giant tortoises, black iguanas, and brightly-colored lava crabs. Includes facts about the islands and a variety of unusual animals found there.

Kurt Vonnegut takes the listener back one million years. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, totally different human race.

"When the magic tree house returns it whisks Jack and Annie away to the Galapagos Islands where they become World Turtle Experts and must save a tortoise in danger of an erupting volcano"--

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research,...

Traces the effect of European adventurers, eccentric Americans, investigating scientists, and the failed tourist industry on life in the islands made famous by Charles Darwin.

"A tortoise from the Galapagos Islands goes on an adventure--at her own speed"--