Mr. & Mrs. Doolittle

For those who don't know, the Galapagos Islands are a bunch of small volcanic islands 1000km off the coast of Ecuador. All of the islands and the sea for 90km around them is National Park meaning you have to visit them as part of an organised tour with a guide. Obviously this makes the whole trip really expensive but at least some of the money goes to helping the poor little critters. Although, you still have the dilema of knowing that it's tourists like you spoiling their habitat in the first place. This is genuinely a problem as there's so many animals you have to be careful where you tread. I was so busy looking at some boobies I very nearly squashed a sleeping Iguana.

The amazing thing about the animals here is the way they react to people. They're not like tame animals which like you because they think you'll feed them - it's more that they just don't care about you. Being ignored is amazing as they just go about their usual eating, sleeping, shagging, fighting business as if you weren't there. It's like being David Attenborough. Here's our little bit of Wildlife on One...

I'm sure no one actually reads Wikipedia when I link to it, so at the risk of waffling (or offending any Christians reading), I'm going to write a bit about how Darwin proved his theory of evolution by studying animals he found on the Galapagos Islands:

When Darwin came to the Galapagos he went around stealing loads of specimens from the various islands and took them all back to England on the HMS Beagle. Among the things he took were loads of small birds which, at the time, he thought were mocking birds, black birds, finches and some other types of birds. However, after a mate of his studied all of them closely, he realised that they were actually all different species of finches. What's more, it turned out that each different species was related to a particular island. This gave him the idea that perhaps it was the isolation on the different islands that had caused the variations in species. After lots more people studied the finches (and giant tortoises) on the Galapagos, it turned out he was right. A couple of species arrived on the Galapagos as few million years ago and as time went by, they all responded differently to the different environments on the various islands, which gave rise to different species. So now you know.