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Aldabra and Atoll
* Aldabra Group ( Aldabra Atoll, Assumption Island, and the Cosmoledo Group, consisting of Cosmoledo Atoll and Astove Island )
The most massive terrestrial chelonians are the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands ( Chelonoidis nigra ) and Aldabra Atoll ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), at up to.
Map of Aldabra Atoll
* Aldabra Atoll at the UNESCO World Heritage Site
Today, the world's largest population inhabits Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles, where there are approximately 150, 000 individuals.
The Aldabra Island day gecko, or Aldabra day gecko ( Phelsuma abbotti abbotti ), has been found on the Aldabra Atoll ( Seychelles ).
The Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.
The main population of the Aldabra giant tortoise resides on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.
# Aldabra Atoll ( a raised atoll with four main and some 40 small islets )
It is located about 30 km southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is part of the Aldabra Group.

Aldabra and along
The Ring-Tailed Lemurs, century old Aldabra Tortoises, the interactive Goat and Sheep Contact yard along with the River Otters can be found in the Children ’ s Zoo.

Aldabra and with
The second largest atoll by dry land area is Aldabra with 155 km².
Adwaita ( sometimes spelled with two d's ) was an Aldabra Giant Tortoise brought to India by Lord Wellesley who handed it over to the Alipur Zoological Gardens in 1875 when the zoo was set up.
In 1810 with Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles and other islands, Aldabra passed into the possession of Great Britain.
Simultaneously ( mid 1960s ) the British Broadcasting Corporation became interested in Aldabra as a possible site to locate transmitters with which to rebroadcast the BBC Overseas Service into the African mainland.
Blacktip reef sharks at Aldabra tend to be more mobile than those at Palmyra, with recorded individual movements of up to over 7 hours.
In 2009, the government of the Seychelles Islands announced its gift of a pair of Aldabra giant tortoises to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in appreciation of China's assisting the small insular nation with the expenses of participating in the Expo.

Aldabra and Des
* 1965The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
** The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands ( on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the Seychelles ).

Aldabra and Farquhar
The granite islands are the world ’ s oldest ocean islands, while the outer islands are mainly very young, though the Aldabra group and St Pierre ( Farquhar Group ) are unusual, raised coral islands that have emerged and submerged several times during their long history, the most recent submergence dating from about 125, 000 years ago.
The Aldabra, Desroches and Farquhar Islands were returned to the Seychelles and the United States cancelled its 60-year lease of the islands from Britain.

Aldabra and was
Aldabra was visited by Portuguese navigators in 1511.
Réunion was returned to France, and Mauritius gained possession of Aldabra as well as the rest of the Seychelles.
Aldabra was designated a World Heritage Site on November 19, 1982, and is administered from Mahé by the Seychelles Island Foundation.
A Pleistocene fossil from Aldabra, Indian Ocean, was described as Pterodroma kurodai.
Donna was euthanized on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, because of her failing health This building also houses a nocturnal exhibit, animals you would find in a mangrove swamp, a reptile exhibit including rhinoceros iguana and Aldabra tortoise, tropical birds, and the zoos Indian rhinoceros.
In the late 1970s a conservation project was started to move tortoises from Aldabra to Curieuse.

Aldabra and part
Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll, is in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Seychelles.
The Aldabra Group are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1000 kilometres from the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island.
* Malabar Island ( also called Middle Island ), part of the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles
Astove Island is part of the Aldabra Group of the Seychelles.

Aldabra and Indian
Birds of Aldabra include the Aldabra rail, the last surviving flightless bird of the Indian Ocean region, and the endangered Malagasy Sacred Ibis as well as large numbers of nesting seabirds.
At Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, blacktip reef sharks congregate in the channels between reef flats during low tide and travel to the mangroves when the water rises.
Other exhibits at the zoo include enclosures for collared peccary, maned wolf, bairds tapir, Indian porcupine, snow leopard, Persian leopard, puma, Syrian brown bear, white-nosed coati, ring-tailed lemur, blue-and-yellow macaw, red panda, little penguin, hamadryas baboon, several species of tamarin, Brazilian agouti, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, meerkat, quokka, platypus, De Brazza's monkey, Aldabra giant tortoise and bongo.
In the Indian Ocean, it occurs from northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to the Red Sea and the Indian subcontinent, including Madagascar, Mauritius, the Comoros, the Aldabra Group, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and the Chagos Archipelago.
Colonies are also found on numerous Indian Ocean islands including Aldabra, Christmas Island, Maldives and Mauritius.

Aldabra and from
Other species include the Komodo Dragon, Green Anaconda, Mountain Chicken, Alligator Snapping Turtle, False Gharial, King Cobra, Gila Monster, Frill-necked Lizard, Aldabra Giant Tortoise, Tuatara, Reticulated Python, Tiger Salamander, Three-toed Amphiuma, Pancake Tortoise, and over two dozen species of Pit Vipers from around the world.
This species, Africa's most widespread member of the genus Corvus, occurs from Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Senegal, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea down to the Cape of Good Hope and on the large island of Madagascar, the Comoros islands, Aldabra, Zanzibar, Pemba and Fernando Po.
Aldabra is a raised coral atoll more than from Mahé, the principal island of the Seychelles and is closer to the coast of Africa and is northwest of Madagascar and a similar distance northeast from the Comoro Islands.
Two species of bats, Paratriaenops pauliani and Pteropus aldabrensis, are known only from Aldabra.
These are the Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis which occurs on the coastline of West Africa ( Egretta gularis gularis ) and from the Red Sea to India ( Egretta gularis schistacea ), and the Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha, found in East Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros and the Aldabra Islands.
The neck of the Aldabra giant tortoise is very long, even for its great size, which helps the animal to exploit tree branches up to a meter from the ground as a food source.
Despite this, hundreds of non-breeding frigatebirds of both species are to be seen, these being probably from Aldabra.
The isolation of Alphonse acts as a magnet to migratory birds and Seychelles Bird Records Committee has recorded more bird species here than anywhere south of the granitics apart from Aldabra, including the only record of Sociable Lapwing for the entire southern hemisphere.
There is a significant population of giant tortoises, but these come from the island Aldabra.

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