Finding the famous Giant Tortoises of Galapagos on Santa Cruz Island.

I've been to the desert. I worked on a crew for the Army Corps of Engineers, doing population density surveys and radio-telemetry tracking on desert tortoises in Southern California's Mojave Desert. The

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I would love to have a tortoises because I want to touch them and feed them too. I have never seen a tortoises in personal. I have seen turtles but they are small unlike those tortoises that are so big

The leopard tortoise is part of the South Africa’s “Small 5” (therhino beetle, the red-billed buffalo weaver, elephant shrew and the antlion). The name Stigmochelys is a combination of the Greek words

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The Radiated tortoises in Madagascar are critically endangered due to habitat loss, being poached for food. The oldest recorded Tortoise lived to 188 years.

Tortoises are one of the most easily found reptiles that can inspire curiosity and fascination in reptile keepers young and old alike. Whether it's their slow yet determined nature or their built in

We see giant tortoises at the zoo and we know that many people keep tortoises as pets, even the larger breeds. When we hear about the history or tortoises, we seem to understand that these are extremely

So it's been raining here for the past week. Which means my tortoises have a lot of fresh foods that I grow in my garden. They love it.

Meet Sriracha my 5 year old Sulcata Tortoise. Born in May of 2013, she started out about the size of a golf ball . This was the first day she came home with us. Sun bathing under the heat lamp in her tank.

Tortoises all the way down

The leopard tortoise is the largest species found in South Africa, reaching a weight of 13-40kg and carapace length of 300-750mm, they can get as old as a 100 years but average 30-75 years. The shape,

I took these this evening in the back yard. We've been getting a lot of rains recently, which means that the air is thick with the sounds of tortoise mating, that wonderful grunt-grunt noise that means