#centrochelys

[herpsandbirds]

Couldn't see the corona yesterday because of cloud cover in Johnson City, but I did manage to get a pic of an African Spur Tortoise taking a nap.

I was here in Houston with the Boyfriends, and we couldn't really see much either. The occasional clearing in the clouds gave us a few looks.

African Spurs are one of my favorites. I used to know a truly massive one that loved getting scritches.

African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), family Testudinidae, found in the Sahara and the Sahel regions of northern Africa.

ENDANGERED.

photograph by wirestock

photograph via: Orange County Parks

photograph by Susan Horton, DVM

[herpsandbirds]

African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), adult and pup, family Testudinidae, found along the southern edge of the Saharan Desert in Africa (The Sahel).

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Garden State Tortoise

[sundarsunya]

African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata). They are the largest mainland species of tortoise, and the third largest species in the world after Galapagos and Aldabra tortoises. 

Photos: M. Ramgrab, Reptile Database

[uk-fossils]

Colossal tortoises

Most people are familiar with the famous giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands – isolated oddities evolving in the absence of predators on a remote tropical paradise. However, as little as 5mya, continental landmasses (including Europe, Africa and India) also had their own species of giants. However, these were nearly three times the size of their modern cousins, probably close to the mass of…

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