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Diego is a Hood Island giant tortoise. Thought to have been hatched on Española Island, Galápagos, he was captured as a young adult and shipped to the United States where he was exhibited at zoos. By the late 1940s he was at San Diego Zoo, California, though his species was not known. A captive breeding effort for the critically endangered ...
Go, Diego, Go! is an American animated educational interactive children's television program that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 6, 2005 in the United States. Created and executive produced by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes, the series is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer and follows Dora's cousin Diego, an 8-year-old boy whose adventures frequently involve rescuing animals and ...
"Save the Giant Tortoises!" "Super Flying Squirrel to the Rescue!" Region 1: June 3, 2008 [48] Diego's Halloween "Freddie the Fruit Bat Saves Halloween!" "Alicia Saves the Crocodile!" "Diego and Dora Help Baby Monarch Get to the Festival" "Manatee's Mermaid Rescue!" Region 1: August 26, 2008 [49] Region 4: October 1, 2009 [50] It's a Bugs' World
Since 1976, Diego, the 130-year-old giant tortoise hailing from San Diego, has lived at the Fausto Llerena Tortoise Center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Now, he's retiring after helping ...
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains three smaller species from mainland South America). The species comprises 15 subspecies (13 extant and 2 extinct). It is the largest living species of tortoise, and can weigh up to 417 kg ...
Description. It is one of the smallest subspecies of Galápagos tortoise. Its black, saddle-backed carapace has a deep cervical indentation, the anterior rim only weakly upturned, and posterior marginals downturned and slightly serrated. It is narrow anteriorly and wider posteriorly.
The Santiago Island giant tortoise ( Chelonoidis niger darwini), also known commonly as the Santiago giant tortoise[ 3] and the James Island tortoise, is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The subspecies is endemic to Santiago Island (also known as James Island and San Salvador) in the Galápagos .
The neck of the Aldabra giant tortoise is very long, even for its great size, which helps the animal to exploit tree branches up to a meter from the ground as a food source. Similar in size to the famous Galápagos giant tortoise, its carapace averages 122 cm (48 in) in length. Males have an average weight of 250 kg (550 lb).