tags: reptiles, Galapagos giant tortoise, Geochelone elephantopus, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Galapagos giant tortoise, Geochelone elephantopus
(but I am not sure of the subspecies),
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
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Grrl Scientist,
I am very much enjoying your serial bestiary from the subway-station walls. Please keep it up.