See giant tortoises and other wildlife on a Galapagos Islands ecotour with Nat Hab and WWF ➜ [ Ссылка ]

Watch this short video taken by Heather Finn of WWF during her trip to the Galapagos Islands with Natural Habitat Adventures. Find out what happens when two giant tortoises approach each other on a narrow path - who will win this display of dominance? Watch to find out!

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Transcript:
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So we're walking down this path...and
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we encounter what can only be described as a tortoise traffic jam.
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Where there's 2 tortoises coming from one direction, and one coming from the other
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And the width of this past isn't very large, so really only one tortoise can fit at a
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time.
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And we are wondering "How are they gonna settle this, who's gonna get the right of way on this path?"
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And, the first tortoise, much smaller, he
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you know, he lost pretty quickly to the much larger tortoise. But the second tortoise turned out
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to be about the same size, and they engage in
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in this sort of staring contest, where they're trying to raise their hand above
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the other one.
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But since they're the same height, they're always at the same level.
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They start lowering their necks, always at the same level
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Always, you know, maintaining the same height
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And we are are wondering who's going to win this? but
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it became very intense, we didn't know what was going to happen next.
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And then one of them raises his head, so much higher than the other one, just very
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quickly
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And because he did that, he wins. He wins because he got his head up higher.
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and the other one has to yield and give him the right of way.
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It was just an incredible thing to see in the wild and and what this video
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actually doesn't show is the one that lost was a bit of a sore loser. He
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actually
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knocked the other tortoise as he walked by, it was
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just really incredible to see that. Moments like this are probably once in a
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lifetime.
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for me. And seeing these tortoises in their natural habitat, and watching their behavior as they share
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this path
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reminds me why being a responsible tourist in the Galapagos is so important.
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We as ecotourists need to visit and experience these kinds of amazing places
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in a way that respects the fragile environment, reducing the impact of our
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journey and the place the species call their home.

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