- "tortoise"). Like
other turtles,
tortoises have a s**** to
protect from
predation and
other threats. The s**** in
tortoises is
generally hard, and like other...
- with
humid highlands, the
tortoises are larger, with
domed s**** and
short necks; on
islands with dry lowlands, the
tortoises are smaller, with "saddleback"...
-
Mediterranean tortoises (genera
Testudo and Agrionemys). The
other four
species are Hermann's
tortoise (T. hermanni), the
Egyptian tortoise (T. kleinmanni)...
- asterisk-shaped vent (cloaca).
Russian tortoises have four toes on
their front limbs,
unusual compared to
other tortoises for
having five.
Coloration varies...
-
between desert tortoises east and west of the
Colorado River, it was
decided that two
species of
desert tortoises exist: Ag****iz's
desert tortoise (Gopherus...
-
Juvenile tortoises tend to eat more legumes,
which are
higher in protein, and
fewer gr****es and tough,
fibrous plants than
mature tortoises. As gopher...
-
Giant tortoises are any of
several species of
various large land
tortoises,
which include a
number of
extinct species, as well as two
extant species with...
-
Lonesome George,
along with
other of the
tortoises on
Pinta Island,
belonged to a
species of 15 subspecies.
Giant tortoises were once
found on all of the continents...
- angonoka,
ploughshare tortoise,
Madagascar tortoise, or
Madagascar angulated tortoise.
There may be
fewer than 400 of
these tortoises left in the wild. It...
- The red-footed
tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) is a
species of
tortoise from
northern South America.
These medium-sized
tortoises generally average...
