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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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