#the Galápagos

[sarahsupernovah]

Imagine fucking here doggy style as we both look out at the natural beauty 🥰😍

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Rein Ketelaars - Flickr: DSCN1938.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0

[vintagewildlife]

Galapagos land iguana By: Philippa Scott From: Man and Wildlife 1970

[longingforrotkehlchen]

I saw this native turtle for a change, and now you can see it too!

Europäische Sumpfschildkröte (European pond turtle) am Pfaffensee, Stuttgart-West.

[manessha545]

Panchita Tunnel, Galápagos, Ecuador: Panchita Tunnel is an intriguing lava tube/cave on Rancho Primicias next to El Chato Tortoise Reserve, in the highlands near Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island, in the Galápagos archipelago, Ecuador, South America. As you descend into the tunnels via stairs, you quickly lose sight of the sun and enter the darkness. Even though they have lights hung throughout. you still have limited visibility.

[antiqueanimals]

Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus)

Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1958.

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[orcinus-veterinarius]

What is ur favorite pinniped? I personally think ribbon seals are silly little guys

I’m a basic girl

[everydayesterday]

Red-Footed Booby (can we call it that? is that safe for tumblr?) aka Sula sula in taxonomic nomenclature  

Typically found in the Southern hemisphere (common in the Galápagos Islands), “They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings.” (wiki)   

photo one by Charles J. Sharp [CC BY 3.0]; two by Bill McFadden/Audubon Photography Awards; three by Gregg Yan [CC BY 3.0]; four by Drew Avery [CC BY 2.0]  

Images are captioned.

[psikonauti]

Galápagos tortoise

Photographed by Daisy Gilardini

[cricketcat9]

No luck

[bracketsoffear]

Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut) "The story begins one million years in the past: 1986 A.D. Mary Hepburn and her husband Roy were supposed to attend the maiden voyage of the wildly publicized Bahía de Darwin, a cruise ship ("The Nature Cruise of the Century!") that takes tourists and sightseers to the famous Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Unfortunately, Roy dies from a brain tumor shortly before the cruise. So it goes.

Mary, grief stricken, takes the flight to Ecuador to honor the commitment she made with her husband. Also attending the cruise are American con artist James Wait, Japanese inventor Zenji Hiroguchi and his pregnant wife Hisako, American financier Andrew Macintosh and his blind daughter Selena, and an oddball assortment of other characters. Unfortunately for the passengers, the captain crashes the boat on the island after a storm and strands them there without much hope for rescue.

Rescue won't be coming because the end of the world is already gathering steam: a series of events including a worldwide financial crisis, a disease which renders all humans on the planet (except the shipwrecked survivors) infertile, and a looming nuclear war. This group of mismatched tourists suddenly become the last fertile members of humanity, and thus the progenitors of a whole new and totally different human race.

This novel is Vonnegut's take on Darwin's theory of evolution, human nature, and other topics. The novel makes mention of the problems associated with "the oversized human brain," which Vonnegut argues as the source for a lot of humanity's problems — humans lie, cheat, and fight one another because their advanced brains give them the capacity to do so — and the descendants of the Bahía da Darwin survivors lose this evolution, which the narrator sees as a good thing. They also turn semi-aquatic, with flippers for arms."

The Southern Reach Trilogy (Jeff VanderMeer) "The Southern Reach is a secret United States government agency responsible for investigating and hiding the existence of Area X, a remote region of swamps and coastline which was one day surrounded by an invisible and nearly impenetrable barrier. Strange phenomena have been occurring in Area X ever since it formed, and the Southern Reach has been sending in team after team in an attempt to find out what was responsible for the Area's creation—and if it poses a danger to the outside world.

Expedition members are warned to avoid contamination by Area X as it's not know what happened to those who did not return; though frustratingly for the teams, that's a very broad directive given how there's any number of ways Area X can contaminate them. Though most became part of Area X by turning into animals, some turned into grotesque monsters that are neither animal nor human. It is strongly hinted at that the… thing behind it all is merely trying to recreate its long lost homeworld, despite that homeworld being dead and its mission obsolete.

To quote the movie adaptation: "It wasn't destroying. It was changing everything. It was making something new." To quote the wiki about the Extinction: "It is the fear of catastrophic change" and "the extinction of humanity and its replacement by something else.""

[luimbq02]

Les traigo un chascarrillo a modo de shitpost

¡Mexicanos! ¡Hay que invadir las Islas Galapagos y reclamarlas para nuestra nación! Jajajajjajaja xd

[vintagewildlife]

Galápagos tortoise By: Russ Kinne From: Man and Wildlife 1970

[columbidaecontest]

[ID: two images of doves, the first being the Galápagos dove. orange-brown with dark brown patterned wings and light blue around its eyes, along with a brown and white stripe. the second, the Nicobar pigeon, large, multicoloured, covered in long, iridescent feathers stands on a tree.]

[manessha545]

Panchita Tunnel, Galápagos, Ecuador: In the village of Bellavista in the Highlands of Santa Cruz Island, you can walk through lava tunnels or lava tubes. This is just 7 km (4.3 miles) inland from Puerto Ayora, the main town. The outer skin of the molten lava hardens while the liquid magma continues to flow through, leaving behind a cavity of empty tubes or tunnels. . There is limited visibility, and the floor is sometimes uneven and slippery.

[kharacloutier]

Khara Cloutier

Reptile Brain

2024

Inkjet print on Somerset Museum Rag, uncoated emerald with argon and mercury / coated cobalt with neon / uncoated light green

31.5 x 41.5 x 2 inches

This stylized collage reimagines the Galápagos tortoise as a mythological beast in Darwin’s depiction of our evolutionary timeline. Inspired by neuroscientist Paul MacLean’s triune brain model, Reptile Brain puts humanity’s primal instincts front and center, over our emotions and rational thoughts.