Since being adopted from a rescue in 2019, Darwin has endeared himself to his owners, extended family and neighbors.

But at the time he fails to even recognize that they are all finches. Darwin enjoys riding on the giant tortoises, called galapagos in Spanish. "I was always amused when overtaking one of these ...

A Galapagos tortoise is seen at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in Ecuador in this Nov. 11, 2008, file photo unrelated to the story. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) PHILADELPHIA ...