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12th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
A galapagos tortoise

The Galapagos tortoise, weighing three times as much as a man, and one of the animal kingdom's longest living creatures, living up to 175 years or more, rests in the sun.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2013
Date Uploaded: 11.2014
Photo Location: Australia
Camera: SIGMA DP2 Merrill
Copyright: © Mark Abriel