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Cool Facts About Animals

Galapagos Tortoise

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

Podcast, Coolfacts, Education For Kids, Kids, Animals, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals

4.5642 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This is the second episode of our kid-made podcast "Cool Facts About Animals." This week, we will be discussing the Galapagos Tortoise - a very slow, very heavy, very cool animal. Email us at [email protected] and follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/coolfactaboutanimals/

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to our second episode of Cool Facts About Animals. I'm Allie Wilkinson, and I'm joined by my three kiddos, Theo, who's three, and hiding in a chair in the other room.

0:11.1

Hi!

0:12.4

Clara, who's five, and Grady, who's seven.

0:15.8

We also have our first guest today. His name is Corderoi. He's a bear. He's Clara's special friend. And one cool

0:23.2

fact about Corderoi is that he is the cutest snorer in the whole wide world. Cordoy, do you want to

0:28.2

snore for us? Okay, wake up, Corderoi. It's time to do the show. So today we're going to be

0:37.3

doing a little bit of a different speed from last time and talking about the Galapagos tortoise.

0:43.1

Now, does anybody know what Galapagos means?

0:47.2

Tortoise.

0:47.7

No, not tortoise. We're talking about the Galapagos tors. What does Galapagos mean?

0:51.5

Tortoise.

0:52.8

Galapagos means tortoise?

0:55.6

Yes. choice what does galapagos mean tortoise galapagos means tortoise yes so you're saying that we're talking about the tortoise tortoise yeah okay exactly so today we're going to be talking about the tortoise tortoise

1:00.4

tortoise also known as the galapagos galapagos also known as the galapagos torus it's not true

1:06.4

it's not known it's the galapagos galapagos everybody so here's a questionapagos, Galapagos, everybody.

1:12.5

So here's a question.

1:25.9

Grady and Clara, if you were to lie down in a nice big king-sized bed with a tortoise and fall asleep with the tortoise, who would take up more of the bed?

1:26.7

Who's longer?

1:28.6

You or the tortoise?

1:29.2

The tortoise.

1:33.3

The tortoise is longer than Claire, right?

1:34.6

Yes, the same size as me, though. And it's about the same size as you, a seven-year-old.

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