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Life for the Galapagos Tortoise is as leisurely as you would expect for such sedate animals, they sleep for about sixteen hours a day. Like other reptiles, they are cold blooded and so regulate their temperature by behavioural means, basking in the sun to warm up and become active and by taking mud baths or by partly submerging themselves itself in water to cool down,

The lower reaches of the Galapagos Islands are very arid and receive little rainfall, tortoises can survive for long periods without drinking, the get most of their water moisture from the dew found on vegetation and from the vegetation itself.

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