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Pet owner and animal advocate Chas regularly posts educational videos about tortoise care with the help of her buddy, Fig, but one of the duo's recent TikToks has reptile owners heading to the pet ...
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]
If you are looking for something to make you smile, this video that TikToker Chas shared of her tiny tortoise chomping on a piece of clover is it! Chas shared the video on Saturday, July 13th and ...
With an average length of 40 cm (15.75 in) and the largest known specimen at 94 cm (37 in), this is the sixth-largest tortoise species on Earth, after the Galapagos tortoise, the Aldabra tortoise, the African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata, typical size 76 cm (30 in)), the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis), and the Asian forest ...
Kinixys is a genus of turtles in the family Testudinidae.The genus was erected by Thomas Bell in 1827. [1] [2] The species in the genus Kinixys are native to Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar [2] and commonly known as hinged tortoises [3] or hinge-back tortoises.
The Cassidinae (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae.The antennae arise close to each other and some members have the pronotal and elytral edges extended to the side and covering the legs so as to give them the common name of tortoise beetles.
These tortoises may attain a length of 25 to 36 cm (10 to 14 in), [12] with males being slightly larger than females. A male tortoise has a longer gular horn than a female, his plastron (lower shell) is concave compared to a female tortoise. Males have larger tails than females do.
The spiny turtle is a medium-sized tortoise with a brown shell and red-spotted head. [4] Also known as the “cog-wheel turtle,” it derives its name from its spiky-edged carapace, marginal scutes, and spiny keel. [5] [6] [7] As juvenile spiny turtles become adults, the black striped and yellow underside of their shell fades in color. [5]