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Galapagos Tortoise Eggs
Even though the Galapagos Island tortoise is a giant in the reptile world, it starts small -- inside an egg the size of a tennis ball. And even though it is now endangered, it was previously kept safe from predators by its remote island location. Instead of laying up to 100 hundred eggs like other tortoises, it lays only 2 to 16. It has to live into its third or fourth decade before it can start laying eggs. With the introduction of predators to their island, the low number of eggs laid each time, and the long maturation time, the eggs of a galapagos island tortoise are rare and valuable. Concerned people can contact various conservancies to make donations to support repopulation efforts.
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Hi Audrey, if you were a tortoise like Shelly from the Galapagos you would need a certain maturity to produce your eggs. Your writer's eggs or products of their successful seeing the light of the world would need more or less such a process. The idea is quite amusing. Don't we always compare or relate to others? I am on a delicate small island called Tenerife.
Most people in the big powerful American West wonder where it is. If I was like Shelly I would take even more time because of so many predators I find myself surrounded with to create something
worthwhile for our world. Perhaps, I need more time for maturing age... I am talking about a form and way of writing for my
www.holiday home in tenerife insider.com tips where much needs adding for retired people. You gave me quite an interesting idea. Therefore, I believe that writing should get better through experiences where aging is not the main reason to get better results, perhaps. Hurdles shape character they say.
So any hurdle a tortoise has to tackle will make her tougher and more fit for good survival to be
able to produce more and better eggs in the future. Wouldn't you agree? Gabriele
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