Galapagos
About Galapagos
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, 485 nautical miles west of the mainland of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of slightly over 33,000 in 2020. The province is divided into the cantons of San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, and Isabela, the three most populated islands in the chain. The Galápagos are famous for their large number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin in the 1830s and inspired his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. All of these islands are protected as part of Ecuador's Galápagos National Park and Marine Reserve.
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Diego is a Hood Island tortoise, and in the 1960s they realized there were only three males left and only about a dozen females left on a Galapagos island, so they started a breeding program.
from No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi, 2020-03-13 at 00:43:32 · read transcript
Other times Galapagos came up
We were at a cleaning station where there were sharks being cleaned by little fish and we were watching these sharks and we were like, these are beautiful. I think there were Galapagos sharks and black tips. All of a sudden, my friend turned around. If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to hear somebody scream underwater, I can tell.
No Such Thing As A Second-Placed Helmet, 2026-04-16 · listen
Evolution always starts as a coincidence which then evolves into being a pattern. Yeah. No, but if you were an animal and you were living on the Galapagos and the trees were too high and the leaves were too high on the tree it's not a coincidence for you to grow your neck to try and... Yes, it is. It's a coincidence that there was someone who was born with a really long neck No, but don't you grow your neck?
No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, 2017-12-29 · listen
Don't bother with it. Everyone thought of that. Then they set off on this expedition. You think that's because you know how Darwin basically lived in England, right? Then he went all the way over to the Galapagos all the way. All the way over the sea. Do you reckon people said, what were you doing on the way? Oh, were you doing fuck all? He was like, oh, it's pointless.
No Such Thing As SpongeBob with Worms, 2022-03-25 · listen
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