Watson was visiting Guy Savy, the owner of Bird Island, Seychelles, when the very large tortoise approached them. As Guy tells the story: “We were having fun naming our newfound friend.

Bird Island, located 70 mi/115 km north of Mahe, is small enough to walk around in an hour. It is home to an amazing number of creatures—more than a million sooty terns nest there between May and ...

This forest is also a habitat for the rare Seychelles Black Parrot, a bird species that exclusively nests on Praslin Island. Other notable critters of the reserve include the Seychelles skink ...