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Today we have the second part of reader Peter’s photos of the Galápagos and its fauna. (Part 1 is here.) There are no notes save this introductory caption, but surely you can identify many of the species!
Years ago I visited the Galapagos Island and enjoyed it immensely. Here are a few of the photos that my wife and I took. I’m sure your readers will be familiar with them all.
Thanks for these nice photos. The Galapagos are high on my bucket list.
The second-to-last picture looks like a seal who’s had one too many glasses of the ol’ tipple!
(Fur seal or sea lion? I can’t decide which it is. Or something else? I’m no good at identification, even with a handy guide: https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/fur-seal-or-sea-lion/).
Forgive my ignorance, but is that lizard supposed to have a forked tail or is that an anomaly?
Its an anomaly. The tail had to regenerate, and owing to some problems it duplicated the tail while regenerating. A very special thing to see, especially since it happened on ‘hallowed ground’.
Very good stuff! Oh how I wish to visit one day!
One of the most amazing adventures I have ever had. Thank you for much better photos than I took.
I hate to proselytize, but we went with an organization called Row Adventures, which was one of the only land-based Galapagos tour companies. Lots of kayaking and beach camping. Most all of the local children really know their natural history!
We see the Marine iguanas, the SEALS, and clearly, the Air Force is represented well…but where are the grunts? I think they’re only in the Atlantic, but I could be wrong.
Lovely pictures. My favorites are the iguanas climbed by a Red cliff crab, the pelican and the seal lying on a rock with that enchanting look in its eyes.
Cute pair of seals there at the end. And penultimate x2 – a tjeld! That’s Norwegian for Oystercatcher. The reason I know that quite well is the last field biological expedition I was on, 2007, in a lovely little retired marine biologist’s private lab – a vacation cottage an hr N of Bergen that dipped one of its corners into a fjord – had many of them in the cove outside the living room window. I had never seen them before. The only bird book on hand was in Norwegian, and there was no Internet. I had to wait till our every-third-day trek to the library in Bergen to go online and translate tjeld.