World’s BIGGEST TORTOISE! The Giant Galapagos Tortoise, 5 fascinating facts!

World’s BIGGEST TORTOISE! The Giant Galapagos Tortoise, 5 fascinating facts! 5. A LIFE OF LEISURE It may not surprise everyone to find that these gentle giants like to sleep, a lot – often for around 16 hours a day, depending on air temperature and food availability; basically, if they're not eating (or foraging) they're sleeping. 4. UNIQUE “FIGHTING” TECHNIQUE When an occasional fight breaks out, male tortoises will face-off against each other. Instead of biting their opponent or exchanging blows, tortoises glare ferociously, widely open their mouths and stretch their necks and heads up as high as they can. Regardless of the tortoises’ actual size, the fight is won by achieving the highest head position – the battle is over when the loser pulls his head in and lets out a noisy vanquished hiss. 3. AMAZING ABILITY TO LIVE WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER Due to their extraordinarily slow metabolism and large internal water storage capacity, they can survive for up to a year without eating or drinking (this ability made them a popular food source among merchant sailors, explorers and pirates who could keep the animals on-board for long journeys without having to care for them). 2. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST Galapagos tortoises are indeed the largest species of the tortoise world – with the heaviest recorded individuals weighing over 400 kilograms (880 lb) and measuring 1.87 meters (6.1 ft) in length. 1. THEY CAN LIVE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME As one of the longest lived vertebrates on earth, Galapagos tortoises in the wild routinely live beyond 100 years – with a captive specimen living for at least 171 years." The music -- called "Dub Eastern" -- was composed by Kevin MacLeod. Please here:

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1. They look like they would had more IQ than Stephen Hawkins!
2. They look like they would had more IQ than Stephen Hawkins!
3. :O can i have 1
4. So how tortoises fight.  "mine's bigger than yours HAHAHAHA."  "Shut up muh fucka... It's just cold out here"
5. leatherback turtles can weight more than twice of that turtle largest found is 907kg
6. this is so fake it,s funny
7. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
8. اوووووو روعععععععة
9. اوووووو روعععععععة
10. Came here by a kung fu movie
11. I thought the A39 Tortoise was the largest tortoise. One still lives in Bovington England. I even got to pet it's 80 ton body.
12. My mom said i need 10 likes to make me a pizza
13. funny with all that sleep you would think that he would be fast AF or more energetic
14. i wish i want to touch one of them
15. I WISH I HAD LIKE THIS ANY OF THESE TORTOISE
16. If you consider humans sleeps 6-8 hours every 24 hours, this tortoise sleeps 16 hours about double of humans. Take that in consideration, their life age would be about 3/4 of human. So than, 100 years would be like 75 years and so forth.
17. 'The battle is won by who has the highest head position'... Cute!
18. they are now extinct as of late last year