Hello peeps, Trent here, today we learned several things. Mainly about our project that's due in FEBUARY! Remember your project needs to include; factual information, don't make it boring and remember it must be PERSUADING!
Next we learned about sad old Lonesome George...
Whats up with him? Lonesome George, the last remaining Galápagos giant tortoise, may soon be a father after years of efforts by scientists trying to get him to mate (since 1993).
Info about him: Lonesome George, weighing 90kg (14st 2lb) was a native of Pinta, an isolated northern island of the Galápagos. By the late 1960s, it was found that the tortoise population on the island had become close to extinction. George, discovered in 1972, was immediately brought into captivity at the Charles Darwin research station on the island of Santa Cruz .
Finally we continued the movie we started yesterday. The most important thing we learned though was that Darwin observed that the turtles on certain islands were different from other islands (variation). He then went on to notice the variation between the birds beaks on the islands. Another important quote was when the "guy" said that the animals have gone their own way, but shaped by the condition they were in, the environment changed their trait(s). We then continued on to learn about how evolution happens annually with the birds of the islands. This happens because of natural selection. Meaning that females selectively choose mates on the conditions. Like how they sometimes reproduce with a smaller size so they can eat the smaller seed
s more effectively. Same goes for the big seeds, they must adapt to have bigger beaks in order to eat the bigger seeds in dry seasons.
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