Galapagos Wildlife: Giant Tortoise Eating

It takes a giant tortoise about twenty years to become mature enough to mate. For one month, males go courting and get rid of competing males by ramming them with their heads. Females lay between three to twelve eggs at a time, called a clutch, once or twice a year. The hatchlings incubate for six or seven months and then climb out of their nests. They are prey to the Galapagos hawks.