Save An Animal Reflection

                               Save An Animal Reflection

     A local animal that needs my help are the baby tortoises. Baby tortoises haven't been seen on Galapagos Island in over a century. If these tortoises continue to not be seen they will soon be extinct. The reason why these tortoises where going extinct was because rats where eating the eggs making the baby tortoises unable to hatch. But in 2012 biologist used helicopters to launch a poison only attracted to rats killing every single rat on the island.

     Now we begin to see many baby tortoises in the Galapagos Island. 10 new baby tortoises has been spotted and with these 10 new babies tortoises can now be saved from extinction. Tortoises reproduce by mating with a male and a female then weeks later the female lays eggs. One single mating can result to 30 eggs but these eggs wont be laid into one clutch. Once the female lays eggs she will need to nurture the egg and keep it safe until it hatches.
 
     What I can do to help is start to take extra good care of these eggs and help the tortoise with the eggs. Also once the eggs are hatched I can nurture the tortoise into not dying. I can feed the tortoise and give it a safe home. Once it's big enough that it can survive on it's own I will put the tortoise back to where it belongs. Later the tortoise will live in its original habitat and be ready to live on its own. What interests me the most is that tortoises are at the urge of extinction. It breaks my heart to see an animal being ready to be extinct because those animals bring so much to our world. They feed off of other animals that may cause problems to Earth. What surprises me the most is that scientists actually found baby tortoises meaning that there is a sense of hope still living with the tortoise family.