Tonight the Yorkshire Wildlife Park's vet Julian Norton assists with a procedure on a giant
Aldabra tortoise, while Helen helps to look after the only family of polar bears in captivity in the UK.
A new attraction for 2019 are the
Aldabra giant tortoises.
Seychelles is the cote de jure of Africa, an archipelago of 115 magical islands trimmed in white sandy beaches and flush with rain forests, warm tropical waters, colourful fish, the mighty Marlin, and the giant
Aldabra tortoise.
Called
Aldabra tortoises, these giant reptiles can live to more than 150 years old and are only found on the Indian Ocean's Seychelles and Galapagos Islands off Ecuador.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the Natural History Museum found that a species of rail successfully colonised an isolated atoll called
Aldabra in the Indian Ocean on two occasions separated by tens of thousands of years.
The white-throated rail, a chicken-sized bird, indigenous to Madagascar in the south-western Indian Ocean is presently found in the isolated island of
Aldabra.
We'll watch a descent to the UNESCO World Heritage site of the
Aldabra Atoll, known as the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean due to its many native species largely untouched by humankind.
We'll watch a descent to the UNESCO World Heritage site of the
Aldabra Atoll, known as the Galapagos of the Indian THE HOUSE OF EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE CHANNEL 5, 10PM TED Parrotman is so besotted by parrots that he changed his name, had his ears cut off, had his eyes tattooed, implants in his head and wants surgery to make his nose look more like a beak.
This genus is known from Madagascar and the Comoros, and
Aldabra islands, particularly in arid forest and scrub vegetation.
Best practice established by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that a certain amount of nature should be managed in a state as close to natural as possible, such as the Seychelles'
Aldabra Atoll.