Go to this site to watch a very cool animation of the tortoises moving across Pinta!
I just think it's so cool to see them moving in relation to one another - much better than just a bunch of points on a screen. I especially like watching Wilman move down to the Southeast and then Wacho following him. I remember when Ben and I observed the two of them together in the same beautiful cactus grove.
-Elizabeth, Syracuse
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Update on Mario, Javier, and Freddy
Here's an update on the 3 tortoises that have satellite tags on them - Mario, Javier, and Freddy. This first image shows their total track since the introduction (the black point). Mario is in yellow, Javier in pink, Freddy in blue.
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Now here's just the segment of the track for where they've been going for the past couple of months (August 9 - October 4).
You can see that Freddy seems to have settled down up in the higher elevations, while Mario and Javier continue to wander. I suppose this could mean that most of the rest of the tortoises are still wandering, too. No way to know until I go back, though!
-Elizabeth, Syracuse
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Now here's just the segment of the track for where they've been going for the past couple of months (August 9 - October 4).
You can see that Freddy seems to have settled down up in the higher elevations, while Mario and Javier continue to wander. I suppose this could mean that most of the rest of the tortoises are still wandering, too. No way to know until I go back, though!
-Elizabeth, Syracuse
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