Tracking Giant Galapagos Tortoises

Tracking Giant Galapagos Tortoises | BBC Earth

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@bloop960 5 жыл бұрын

Tortoise: Bro don’t freak out but I think theres a satellite on your back

@romanista9776 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@au5tinthoma543 2 жыл бұрын

Fucking golden thank you @bloop

@acrosstheworld001 5 жыл бұрын

These animals are such a beauty and so calm they are. Just love them. Problem is, we humans behave like the entire globe is ours only and other animals are living on our mercy.

@evergreen- 5 жыл бұрын

Because that’s true

@jcrhea001 5 жыл бұрын

Yes the humans moving to the island are very evil.

@dande-lions 5 жыл бұрын

@@jcrhea001 No, they're just ignorant, and perhaps a bit selfish. The people who allow the land to be developed could be considered evil.

@jcrhea001 5 жыл бұрын

@@dande-lions and who would those people be?

@dande-lions 5 жыл бұрын

@@jcrhea001 I would think the Ecuadorian government. Galapagos Islands are a province of Ecuador.

@yengyengjose7378 5 жыл бұрын

When will you realize the more you take the less you have- Master oogway

@guitarist2463 2 жыл бұрын

There are no accidents - Master Oogway

@violetblue1251 5 жыл бұрын

they are so cute, peacefull and gentle. love them 🐢🐢

@sreetalks618 4 жыл бұрын

They will eat you 😀😍

@TheFlyingChair24 5 жыл бұрын

I thought they were extinct but its insane how the power and time of adaptation built a tank of a tortoise

@christophergepullano9029 5 ай бұрын

What's more impressive is the fact that a single one of them possibly outlived most of us 👏👏👏

@reymond.yeahhh 5 жыл бұрын

Ive never known Mr. Bean is also a biologist. What a remarkable man.

@joshlayes3130 4 жыл бұрын

Reymond Adelfa LMAO

@kushalchudal2072 4 жыл бұрын

Okay ,that's cool

@Ryoko007 3 жыл бұрын

aww, turtles look so peaceful. i love them.

@gabrielleross5506 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that these tortoises are too far away from China or else they're now inside the bottle and use as a medicine for various ailments.

@drnthe 5 жыл бұрын

Gabrielle Ross as a Chinese I whole heartedly agree

@gabrielleross5506 5 жыл бұрын

@@drnthe 😔

@walkz007 5 жыл бұрын

Or made into a stew

@arsanthgames6023 4 жыл бұрын

They're extinct already

@highlyvurgultis3706 4 жыл бұрын

@@arsanthgames6023 no they aren't lol

@AverytheCubanAmerican 5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Lonesome George...RIP

@alejandrocambraherrera8242 3 жыл бұрын

Narrator: ““Galapago” means “turtle” in Old Spanish”. Me, a native Spanish speaker: “I didnʼt know that 👁️👄👁️”.

@BerylLx 3 жыл бұрын

Technically within a quote, if another quote is to be made, you would use the single apostrophe. So as to not confuse the reader. Your quote should look more like this “ 'Galapago' means 'turtle' in Old Spanish”.

@Ato-3000J 3 жыл бұрын

Lol yo tampoco

@trauko1388 3 жыл бұрын

That is because it is WRONG! Galapago is the name of a type of SADDLE, when the Spanish discovered the islands they name the tortoises after the saddle becuase of their similar shape, and then they also named the islands after them.

@brandonluff7992 3 жыл бұрын

@@trauko1388 so he wasn’t wrong he just missed the saddle part before

@trauko1388 3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonluff7992 He was wrong, galápago has NEVER been a word meaning turtle, due to its similarity to the TRADITIONAL galapago saddle a TYPE of tortoise and the islands where they live were *named after the saddle* .

@kingofthefobbys3894 4 жыл бұрын

So this is where master Oogway came from.

@fahadsarkar2256 2 жыл бұрын

Really?

@kroneexe 2 жыл бұрын

@@fahadsarkar2256 Yes. Then he wandered the world before settling in China.

@kunchalkondedan9666 5 жыл бұрын

Essential content

@SlowToe 5 жыл бұрын

Why do I watch these? I only feel anger and sadness after it.

@jacobhanun3227 5 жыл бұрын

Stop being so sensitive

@SlowToe 5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhanun3227 your part of the problem. Easily solved...

@jacobhanun3227 5 жыл бұрын

@@SlowToe uh ok...

@JonathanSharman 5 жыл бұрын

You should feel hope instead. They are doing work to allow humans to coexist sustainably within their environment. With smart planning, we can limit human impact on the tortoises.

@dande-lions 5 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanSharman Human presence and development on this special island chain needs to be severely limited and controlled. I fear it's already being allowed to expand too much.

@Aurys658 5 жыл бұрын

So beautiful.

@myasuujo3330 5 жыл бұрын

As usual human presence is destroying animal lives

@jacobhanun3227 5 жыл бұрын

Humans are animals...

@Daily_Dose_of_Grass 5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhanun3227 were not animals A meaning of a animal is amazing and useful we humans are not like that :/

@jacobhanun3227 5 жыл бұрын

@@Daily_Dose_of_Grass go look it up or read a book. Everything you just said was just blubber. humans are intellectual animals that's a fact get over it

@myasuujo3330 5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhanun3227 I know that we're not different than animals but we call ourselves human race not animals right?

@Metacognition88 5 жыл бұрын

@@myasuujo3330 that's the problem. If we saw that we are nor special by knowing we are walking, talking, thinking primates we would treat all living things much better.

@BWoodPhotography 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Does human interaction with these magnificent creatures have any negative impacts on them?

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

I quote from galapagosconservation.org.uk - "Galapagos giant tortoise populations suffered huge declines due to exploitation by whalers, buccaneers and fur sealers. The tortoises provided a source of fresh meat which could be kept alive on a ship for several months without any food or water. This resulted in the loss of between 100,000 and 200,000 tortoises. They were also exploited for their oil which could be used for burning in lamps. The introduction of several species by humans has had further devastating effects on tortoise populations. Rats, pigs and ants predate tortoise eggs; feral dogs attack adult tortoises; cattle and horses trample nests; and goats compete with tortoises for food. They are also affected by barriers to the migration routes such as farmland fencing and roads, and there are possible health issues from being in close proximity with farm animals."

@BWoodPhotography 3 жыл бұрын

@@GlitchanBlack Wow! I had no idea. Thanks so much for sharing that info with me. I appreciate it.

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

@@BWoodPhotography You're welcome.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 5 жыл бұрын

Slow and steady wins the race

@temsational9941 4 жыл бұрын

Slow and steady wins the nuke

@raygun26 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine walking 10 days to go 5 feet and u come across a fence that goes on for miles. I’d be pissed.

@leonardofantoni8723 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@debbiedunn4477 5 жыл бұрын

They are amazing animals. I wonder how old the oldest ones are.

@catrashoo 2 жыл бұрын

They live up to 143 yrs.

@Liverpool2102MHB 2 жыл бұрын

@@catrashoo bud, they can live up to a hundred years more than that.

@JohnSmith-ys4nl 10 ай бұрын

@@catrashoo Nope, oldest proven tortoise was 177 years.

@kmegan 7 ай бұрын

the oldest living tortoise is currently 191 years old

@Bobby.546 2 ай бұрын

@@kmeganthere’s one that’s estimated to be 255 years old (Adwaita) But he died in 2006. What’s even crazier is that he was a virgin his whole life lmao.

@tanuchhabra155 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it❤️!

@joshuabela5374 4 жыл бұрын

We love you, Tortoises

@TimeTheory2099 5 жыл бұрын

@BBC, Great video 5min. Even Better.

@Tanygopteryx251 5 жыл бұрын

Gotta love them island microcosms

@arunabhawasthi3745 4 жыл бұрын

Homo sapiens - nature’s most extraordinary and appalling creation at the same time.

@thecatsmeow9972 Жыл бұрын

Amazing , makes you wonder what’s on their minds ❤❤

@dg_96_7 5 жыл бұрын

Just got back from Galapagos a few days ago, beautiful place!

@Chelsea123Chii Жыл бұрын

Are they doing anything like land conservation to help the tortoise?

@dg_96_7 Жыл бұрын

@@Chelsea123Chii yes of course. They’re very big on conservation.

@anche_lina 5 жыл бұрын

So cute 😍

@shen253 3 жыл бұрын

Aw I hope I can see one, someday!

@killuasnipz2961 11 ай бұрын

Tripped out kinda when I heard Steve Blake, even though I should’ve know better I expected nba Steve blake 😂

@akshaynandy7279 5 жыл бұрын

Wow amezing

@maninredhelm 5 жыл бұрын

They're very interesting and compelling creatures, but I have trouble believing that the avian ecosystem is dependent on a tortoise walking by and jostling a butterfly. Birds survive on almost every speck of land on this planet, without giant tortoises. Seed dispersal gets done everywhere without giant tortoises. Not that the existence of the species requires any justification at all, but it just seems silly and desperate to describe their contributions to the ecosystem this way in order to attack a town of 12000. That said, the cattle industry has no need to exist anywhere, but especially not on those islands.

@sahilrana254 5 жыл бұрын

3:00 look at the eyes Asking for help

@someting9205 3 жыл бұрын

Idiot. Tortoise dont need your help, hairy monkie! They only need sun and shrubs!

@habajuza 3 жыл бұрын

They're just looking at the camera idiot, i hate ocean pollution but saying that a tortoise asks for help just because he looked at the camera is stupid.

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

@@someting9205 To quote galapagosconservation.org.uk - since you literally know nothing about these specific tortoises - "The Galapagos giant tortoise spends an average of 16 hours per day resting. The rest of their time is spent eating grasses, fruits and cactus pads. They enjoy bathing in water, but can survive for up to a year without water or food. Small birds, such as Galapagos finches, can often be seen sitting on the backs of giant tortoises. The birds and tortoises have formed a symbiotic relationship in which the birds peck the ticks out from the folds of the tortoises’ skin. Breeding primarily occurs during the hot season (January to May), although mating may be seen at any time of year. Mating may last for several hours, with the male making loud roaring noises throughout. After mating, the female migrates to a nesting area, where she digs a hole with her back feet into which she lays 2 to 16 eggs, each the size of a tennis ball. The eggs are incubated by the sun, with the young tortoises hatching after around 130 days."

@someting9205 3 жыл бұрын

@@GlitchanBlack fake news

@someting9205 3 жыл бұрын

@@GlitchanBlack nothing can go without water for longer than a day. You conspiracy theorist. Learn how to fact check.

@nicholasjonas2505 4 жыл бұрын

It's so awesome not only that God created them, but made them unknowingly care for the plants

@jocelynharris-fx8ho 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning God and the fact that HE created all things !!!! ❤💜 I watch these videos because these animals are so beautiful but I get annoyed when there is no mention of the Creator . 😡👎 I tried to mention it, on another site about Tortoises and they deleted my comments . I was going to make a donation to their organization but when they did that.... sorry... I spent my money somewhere else.

@VivianBoye 5 жыл бұрын

Humans are putting our environment at stake

@VultL0ck3d 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yea hey, if you don't fucking recycle that water bottle you just threw out of your window, I am going to fucking blast your ass on Facebook. You have 24 hours.

@ASBDYTheAwesome 4 жыл бұрын

Erik Downer he didn’t do anything

@mame9562 3 жыл бұрын

@@ASBDYTheAwesome it was a joke lmao

@muhamadamirulhafiz2852 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful tortoise

@sonamsherpa6793 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome 😎

@daanvandongen1422 5 жыл бұрын

after watching the new duck tales i can't take this narrator seriously anymore.

@sumedhbhagat161 2 жыл бұрын

This topic is on my syllabus 😅

@kazkaz6177 5 жыл бұрын

Love 😍

@kazkaz6177 5 жыл бұрын

My lifelong dream is to go the the Galapagos Islands and Madagascar 🇲🇬

@gillermovega7939 5 жыл бұрын

Oooh beutiful 👏👏👏👏

@ns_kol 3 жыл бұрын

wow. even tortoises get slap with some good old gentrification

@walkz007 5 жыл бұрын

**MZEE KOBE** 🙌🙌🙋🙋

@damondamico6264 4 жыл бұрын

Great job! Let's make these shirts hemp and we do even better!

@HeavyMettaloid 5 жыл бұрын

Cool hampsters

@MalaysianTropikfusion 5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering why the audio sounded leprechaun-ish. Forgot that I had the speed at 1.5x ^.^'

@akoruharkata5439 5 жыл бұрын

Rare footage of me getting out of my house in spring after hibernating.

@TheDarkVictini 2 жыл бұрын

“There are no accidents” - Master Oogway

@brandonbuzz7075 Жыл бұрын

I am totally good with David Tennant taking over for BBC nature documentaries… still love Sir David Attenborough too

@rockyrivermushrooms529 5 жыл бұрын

wow did he really mean development of Galapagos as in theylre gonna slap a mcdonalds down one day?

@wesrobertson8753 4 жыл бұрын

I love you world.

@MadAlienArt 2 жыл бұрын

good dog

@yogitakukreja2296 3 жыл бұрын

i feel so sad for these old creatures. sadly we ourselves are a deadly virus to so many species :(

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

People who kill giant tortoises for exploitation and edible food are the most evil people in the world. And what I'd do is I'd have police marksmen on tall buildings picking them off.

@fulkalhosni3179 5 жыл бұрын

❤️

@insidethemirrorstudio Жыл бұрын

Where can we see the full episode of this video? Thank you.

@GoddessEmeh 5 жыл бұрын

💜 💜 💜 💜

@toradora1439 5 жыл бұрын

Everything in the ecosystem serves a purpose. Everything except for humans.

@mynameislisa2281 5 жыл бұрын

What an absolutely stupid remark. Do you honestly think humans serve no purpose?

@toradora1439 5 жыл бұрын

@@mynameislisa2281 Do you honesty believe Humans still do in todays times?

@mynameislisa2281 5 жыл бұрын

@@toradora1439Yes humans of all times serve a purpose. Your life is so much more important than an animals. I'm not saying we shouldn't be good to them, but human life comes first.

@toradora1439 5 жыл бұрын

@@mynameislisa2281 Wow, way to completely miss-understand what my post was about. Firstly, the point of whether a human life is more valuable than that of another species life is completely debatable, but has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making earlier. My point was, in an ecosystem, humanity no longer plays a role or serves a function in that ecosystem. For example, Bee's play a vital role in the ecosystem as they are essential to how plant life reproduces. With out Bee's spreading pollin to other plants, many of the plant species would die off. As you remove one species out of an ecosystem, that in turn had a detrimental effect on other life forms in that same ecosystem. If enough species are removed, that ecosystem collapses and wild life in that area dies off. We see this playing out right under our very noses. The coral reefs are a prime example of this type of devastation, and if you trace back as to the cause of what is killing off these ecosystems, a lot of it has to do with human interactions/influences. The deforestation of the rain forests are another prime example of human exploitation which is causing many ecosystems to collapse. So I say again, humanity doesn't play a role in the planets ecosystems. We have through our technology and unchecked population boom, taken ourselves out of the natural equation of how the ecosystems work.

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

@@toradora1439 Jeremy Clarkson would agree with everything you just said.

@thomasvetor7420 5 жыл бұрын

hummm turtles being on land is definetly different , but them finding food n what they like , is kinda interesting

@bosnakedisniksic 5 жыл бұрын

They aren't turtles, they're tortoises. Related, but millions of years of evolution has made tortoises perfectly adapted for land and made turtles spread into most ecosystems around the world, freshwater, saltwater, and on land in forests.

@mohitkashyap1302 4 жыл бұрын

One of them is finding his dragon warrior 😄

@michaelphillips2762 5 жыл бұрын

put the speed in x .25 for best tortise watching

@user-cw2py6wh8l 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that these tortoises are too far away from the NRA or else they would be mounted on someone's wall.

@noonespecial9233 5 жыл бұрын

Oh good, now I'm sad and angry...some more...

@beautifullearth4283 5 жыл бұрын

Cute people 😍

@MalaysianTropikfusion 5 жыл бұрын

Wait, what do they eat that they have to go trudging up volcanoes to find it?

@Simple_Jackass 5 жыл бұрын

What do you get when you cross a turtle and a porcupine? a slow-poke... ...

@Simple_Jackass 5 жыл бұрын

@K. KFlana - ;)

@carbolics29 2 жыл бұрын

The only place you can catch a Blastoise

@Lombrar 5 жыл бұрын

I think Steve dedicated himself to some green too

@IansilarioGmail 2 жыл бұрын

Marine iguana add the best animals in the galapagos islands i'm calling it now

@huunghiatran9188 3 жыл бұрын

Fly Tortoise - Cambrigde IELTS brought me here

@johnnywalker7961 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine teenage mutant ninja turtle was real .

@maninredhelm 5 жыл бұрын

and they moved at the speed of a galapagos turtle.

@Uxmv 5 жыл бұрын

Wow theres no people here saying "First"

@stocese5356 4 жыл бұрын

Tortoises are clearly jesus

@babygoose8716 5 жыл бұрын

That’s a freaking dinosaur 🦕

@BorhanUddin 5 жыл бұрын

Why don't you upload in 4K?

@pokedokei3761 5 жыл бұрын

Hello there

@ShadowFungus 3 жыл бұрын

They’re just like very slow cows with body armor.

@clol6049 9 ай бұрын

cows? hell no.

@chicfillet8906 4 жыл бұрын

I’m here because of Diego the tortoise

@bunbun-qt4qq 2 жыл бұрын

According to the law of bgm, humans are the villains 1:18

@ames177 5 жыл бұрын

aw steve q_q

@gabrieleugenew 3 жыл бұрын

@Kumargaurav-27 Жыл бұрын

Kaun gaurag Garg sir ke recommendation se aaya hai

@juanjoseaguirre1739 5 жыл бұрын

My countryyyyy 🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨

@monikag1323 4 жыл бұрын

It's a lovely country! I was there in 2000 and found people to be very sweet and hospitable!

@GlitchanBlack 3 жыл бұрын

Working on a biology special assignment for homeschool, so I came here. I was not disappointed at how factual this is. P.S.: To humans living in Galapagos - PLEASE do not cut off the Giant Tortoise's migration routes anymore!

@minlan90 2 жыл бұрын

Ninja turtle without radioactive substances

@jolly1086 5 жыл бұрын

No subtitles, sad

@Liverpool2102MHB 2 жыл бұрын

12 000 people on a tiny Island?! That would be ideal in a perfect world, but not if it means a disruption of sacred wildlife…

@tienganhduhocdinhcu 3 жыл бұрын

Who else comes here after reading the test "Flying tortoises" in IELTS Cambridge 12?

@lizardplayz49 2 жыл бұрын

0:16 derp

@dantederi5062 Ай бұрын

So giant galapagos tortoise literally means giant tortoise tortoise?

@Jesus-uy9tr 4 жыл бұрын

I thought the were extinct

@turtleclaws941 3 жыл бұрын

No offense but maybe it would be better if you were less dramatic about the baby tortoises.

@timsullivan4566 5 жыл бұрын

In ALL documentary footage of the Galapagos I've ever seen, I saw NOTHING to indicate permanent human habitation - not so much as a shed, let alone a bustling village! I feel deceived and manipulated by film-makers who I NOW realize must have gone to great lengths to keep hordes of eco-tourists and competing film-makers out of their camera's viewfinder. Should've been obvious, now that I think of it ...but it still sucks.

@dande-lions 5 жыл бұрын

Same. It really does suck. This special place needs to keep human presence and development severely limited or its only a matter of time. They've already allowed that town to expand too far, im surprised. I thought the whole island was under tighter protection than that.

@gives_bad_advice 2 жыл бұрын

How did they get to the island originally?

@amateurfilmgirlie Жыл бұрын

Evolution

@gives_bad_advice Жыл бұрын

@@amateurfilmgirlie then how did they get off the island and end up in South America?

@yanikore 2 жыл бұрын

is it just me or is david tennant actually the one narrating this clip??

@bengribbin6412 Жыл бұрын

Wanna be a Galapagos tortoise, my it would be swell, to spend my time eating days and nap living in my a massive shell! but should a goat come near me, what little more be said? They'd come and eat my dinner I'd starve and then be dead!