MetaFilter posts tagged with galapagos

Stories from Hogar de Don Guido - the DX shack in the Galapagos.

Taksi Putra — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:31:41 -0800

Stories from Hogar de Don Guido - the DX shack in the Galapagos.

George, you old dog, you...

allkindsoftime — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:50:36 -0800

Meet Lonesome George. George is the last known remaining Pinta Island Tortoise. That's pretty lonely. He's also, according to some, the most famous reptile in the world. via. But there's good news: George might be a dad!

Galapagos kitties exterminated

longsleeves — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:10 -0800

What would have evolved in 10,000 years? Feral cats have long-established colonies on the islands of the Galapagos chain.

Mate for life

growabrain — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:38:02 -0800

A mating dance of the waved albatross on The Galapagos Islands. (60 sec. plus some other clips below)

All of Darwin coming online

jfuller — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:12:09 -0800

Charlie Darwin joins the fray. Yes, The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits is there.

metrocake — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:47:25 -0800

Oh, hell. Now all of that tanker fuel is floating around the Galapagos Islands. Okay, so stupid question time: How is it that oil tankers are allowed to be near the islands at all, given their fragility and the number of endangered species on them? I'm sure they'd have to go out of their way to move the oil, but wouldn't that be better environmentally than, well, this?!