{"id":79,"date":"2010-04-27T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/27\/the-galapagos\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:57:58","slug":"the-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/27\/the-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisabraham.com\/blue-footed-boobies-dance.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galapagospark.org\/\">Galapagos Islands<\/a>, officially known as El Archipielago de Colon, is an\u00a0archipelago of volcanic islands located in Ecuador, about 950 km off the coast. Their most remarkable feature is their biodiversity, within the islands one can see the famous Galapagos Tortoise, marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, the land iguanas, lava lizards, frigate birds, sea lions, amongst other species. Furthermore, the islands are also known because Charles Darwin studied them during his voyage on the Beagle. The endemic species residing in these islands contributed to Darwin&#8217;s Theory of Evolution by natural selection. There are amazing islands, lots of things to do from just lying in the beach to canoeing and exploring the islands. Other features are their volcanoes.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galapagospark.org\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Galapagos Islands, officially known as El Archipielago de Colon, is an\u00a0archipelago of volcanic islands located in Ecuador, about 950 km off the coast. Their most remarkable feature is their biodiversity, within the islands one can see the famous Galapagos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/27\/the-galapagos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,44770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-spring-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}