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Red-footed tortoises have many common names: red-leg, red-legged, or red-foot tortoise (often without the hyphen) and the savanna tortoise, as well as local names, such as carumbe or karumbe, which means 'slow moving' (Brazil, Paraguay), wayapopi or morrocoy (Venezuela, Colombia), and variations of jabuti such as japuta and jabuti-piranga (Brazil, Argentina). [5]
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Present on Barbuda; probably extirpated from Antigua. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Recorded in water only. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-Footed Tortoise: Presence on Saint Kitts questioned; not present on Nevis. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead Turtle: Endangered. Chelonia mydas: Green Turtle: Endangered. Eretmochelys imbricata ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered: Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered: Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle: Critically endangered: Leathery sea turtles ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Introduced. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Eretmochelys imbricata: Hawksbill turtle: Critically Endangered. Leathery ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Box turtles and pond turtles Species Common name(s) Notes Image Trachemys scripta elegans [4] Red-eared slider: Introduced; abundant. Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Chelonoidis carbonarius [6] Red-footed tortoise: Native to South America, introduced and very common. The first mention of this species on Saint-Barthélemy was made by l'Herminier in 1815. Pond turtles Species Common name(s) Notes Image Trachemys scripta elegans [7] Red-eared slider
The brain of a tortoise is extremely small. Red-footed tortoises, from Central and South America, do not have an area in the brain called the hippocampus, which relates to emotion, learning, memory and spatial navigation. Studies have shown that red-footed tortoises may rely on an area of the brain called the medial cortex for emotional actions ...