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The Aldabra Island day gecko, or Aldabra day gecko ( Phelsuma abbotti abbotti ), has been found on the Aldabra Atoll ( Seychelles ).
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* Aldabra Group ( Aldabra Atoll, Assumption Island, and the Cosmoledo Group, consisting of Cosmoledo Atoll and Astove Island )
* Westernmost point-West Island, Aldabra Islands, Outer Islands district
Aldabra was designated a World Heritage Site on November 19, 1982, and is administered from Mahé by the Seychelles Island Foundation.
Aldabra and Assumption Island Additionally, there are some forty smaller islands and rocks, all inside the lagoon, except a few very small islets at the West Channels between South and Polymnie Islands, the largest of those being Îlot Magnan.
* Aldabra Island xeric scrub ( World Wildlife Fund )
** Aldabra Island Day Gecko, Phelsuma abbotti abbotti
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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.
The only remaining settlement is on Assumption Island, not counting the Aldabra Research Station on Picard Island of Aldabra.
* 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.
Colonies are also found on numerous Indian Ocean islands including Aldabra, Christmas Island, Maldives and Mauritius.
Aldabra and Phelsuma
There are several species of endemic Seychelles lizards on the island, the skinks Mabuya wrightii, M. seychellensis and Pamelascincus gardineri and the geckos Phelsuma astriata and Ailuronyx sechellensis, as well as a freshwater turtle Pelusios subniger and 12 individuals of the Aldabra Giant Tortoise.
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The most massive terrestrial chelonians are the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands ( Chelonoidis nigra ) and Aldabra Atoll ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), at up to.
The atoll is home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises, the Aldabra Giant Tortoise ( Dipsochelys dussumieri ), numbering some 100, 000 individuals.
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 Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.
Unlike the other two atolls of the group, ( Aldabra and Cosmoledo ), there are no predator-free islets except for a few small sandbanks close to the lagoon entrance.
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Uninhabited and extremely isolated, Aldabra is virtually untouched by humans, has distinctive island fauna including the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, and is designated a World Heritage Site.
Aldabra has a number of endemic plant species.
The Aldabra tortoise has two main varieties of shell.
This exhibit has indoor and outdoor viewing and contact yards for the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, Spur-thighed tortoise, and the Rabbits.
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.
Aldabra and found
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.
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** 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 ).
Furthermore, goats brought to Aldabra Islands are destroying much of the vegetation on which giant tortoises feed or seek shade.
* Robert Clive's pet Aldabra Giant Tortoise died on Thursday, 23 March 2006 in the Kolkata zoo.
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.
A small colony of Aldabra Giant Tortoises on the island is a popular visitor attraction.
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.
The main population of the Aldabra giant tortoise resides on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.
Two subspecies of Madagascar Kestrel, F. newtoni, are recognised, one on the main island of Madagascar and one on neighbouring Anjouan and Aldabra.
Aldabra and Atoll
The Aldabra Atoll, along with Des Roches and Farquhar, was part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 until Seychelles independence in 1976.
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.
# 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 Seychelles
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.
In 1810 with Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles and other islands, Aldabra passed into the possession of Great Britain.
Réunion was returned to France, and Mauritius gained possession of Aldabra as well as the rest of the Seychelles.
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.
The atoll is located at and belongs to the Aldabra Group, one of the island groups of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, which includes the island of Assumption and the atolls of Astove and Cosmoledo.
* Aldabra at the Ministry of Environment, Seychelles
* Aldabra at the Seychelles Islands Foundation
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.
* Seychelles Islands Foundation, manages and protects the World Heritage Sites of Aldabra and Vallee de Mai
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