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Only tangentially related, but giant tortoises are thought to have floated (they can't really swim) a thousand kilometers to the Galapagos from the coast of Sou
by Clamchop 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but giant tortoises are thought to have floated (they can't really swim) a thousand kilometers to the Galapagos from the coast of South America, where they later went extinct.
I imagine most of the tortoises that found themselves floating in the Pacific never made landfall!
- avar 2y agoOnly tangentially related, but humans are thought to have floated (they can't really swim that distance) around fifteen hundred kilometers to the Galapagos from the coasts of Central America, where they later caused the extinction of Giant Tortoises.
- manuel_w 2y agoThat reminds me of that Werner Herzog documentary on Penguins, and the one Penguin that leaves to group just to wander off into the island towards certain death. https://youtu.be/mnTU_hJoByA?t=131 https://youtu.be/mnTU_hJoByA?t=131
- fhe 2y agoyes, the image of that lone penguin setting off to the horizon with (what i read as) resolution had stuck on my mind. perhaps i was seeing too much of myself in it (and i think many others do too).