This 300 pound Galapagos Tortoise (Chips) loves to be scratched on the neck by her keeper, Chris Henderson, and holds her head up. When he puts an apple there, she balances it because she wants him to scratch her neck. (At the San Diego Zoo)Find cartoon drawings of animals at my website: http://www.LillyARTS.com

When the tortoise arrives at a spring, seemingly ignoring any spectators, it puts its head in the water above its eyes, and swallows many mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute.