Giant tortoise being fed at Tring Park
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Giant tortoise being fed at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises, aiming in part to protect them from potential extinction from hunting. Eventually 144 giant tortoises from Galapagos and Aldabra in the Seychelles ended up at Rothschild home grounds of Tring Park. Date: 1897
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© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum
1897 Archive Behaviour Chelonoidis Cryptodira Exotic Feeding Giant Tortoise Keeper Lionel Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild Menagerie Monochrome Reptile Reptilia Rothschild Sauropsid Sauropsida Side View Testudines Testudinid Testudinidae Tortoise Tring Tring Park Turtle Walter Rothschild
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