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Trish
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Posted - 11/11/2002 :  15:00:13  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message
My kid is doing a research paper on the Galapagos Tortoise and needs to find a growth chart for them. Anyone have any ideas where she can look - we've gotten frustrated at this point.

Thanks for the help.

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Posted - 11/12/2002 :  11:37:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Slater a Private Message
Errr..what are you looking for Size/age, size/sex or size/island?

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Posted - 11/13/2002 :  21:42:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message
looking for Size vs. age (x vs. y)

...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
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Posted - 11/14/2002 :  04:55:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Size vs. age is a tough, as growing rates might reflect good and bad seasone as well as differences from island to island.

Lemme look. I might can find something.

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Posted - 11/14/2002 :  05:20:59   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Ok, there isn't much. The first link is a very interesting paper on the Galapagos Tortoises; the second concerns the nearly as large Aldabra Tortoise. That one has a growth chart of sorts.

http://members.tripod.com/~dcarson/galapagos_tortoises.html

http://www.tortoise.org/archives/yniphora.html

Hope this helps a little.

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