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If wild animals used social
media, what would they say?
Follow this Galápagos tortoise’s

BY ALLYSON SHAW

GALÁPAGOS TORTOISE 2 p.m.
Ifeellikeamud
LIVES IN: Galápagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador bath. How’s every-
SCREEN NAME: SwellShell FRIENDS: one else doing?
SwellShell
I’m feeling blue.

TealToes
Can I snag you a fish? That
TealToes FrostyFur LionAround always cheers me up.
BLUE-FOOTED HOARY GALÁPAGOS
BOOBY BAT SEA LION
No—it’s a good LionAround
T thing! I’m going
AR 11 a.m. to flash these baby
1
blues around the
ST Boy,it’s hot! Time to beach and try to
head up the“Tortoise get a date!
Highway”to cooler TealToes
ground for a few
months.Thousands Looking good,
of tortoises made TealToes! Just like
these tracks! me when I get out
of the water.
SwellShell
LionAround
6:30 p.m.
Youweigh,what,500pounds?Howfast
canyoucruisewiththatbigbackpack?
Sun’s going down—time to find a
LionAround
patch of soil to snuggle down in.
My shell’s actually pretty light—it’s SwellShell #PerfectDay
my legs that weigh so much!And it’s TIM LAMAN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (TORTOISE PROFILE, ALL); STEPHEN ST. JOHN / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY PROFILE, ALL); JOEL SARTORE / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (HOARY BAT PROFILE, ALL); WESTEND61 PREMIUM / SHUTTERSTOCK (SEA LION PROFILE, ALL; TORTOISE HIGHWAY); UWE BERGWITZ / SHUTTERSTOCK (MUD BATH); ELLEN GOFF /
not like I need to hustle to get food: Are you kidding?
I can go an entire year without eating It’s party o’clock!
SwellShell or drinking. Nighttime is when
I can really spread
my wings. FrostyFur
A year’s nothing to SwellShell—he’s
at least a hundred years older than
me.Do you even remember your Admit it—you come out at night
birthday? for the bugs. And hey, I got plenty.
I surround my nesting area with TealToes
FrostyFur
dung,so lots of flies over here!
Nope! So I’ll go ahead and celebrate That’s fowl.Get it? You’re a bird—
today.Grass cake,anyone? you’re fowl.
SwellShell LionAround

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