#red-footed tortoise

[photographe-a-roulettes]

Tortue Charbonnière à Pattes Rouges - Elle se montre surtout active le matin et le soir. Elle est difficile à observer dans son milieu naturel car elle préfère rester dans l’épaisseur des forêts.

Lieu : Pairi Daiza, Belgique

[arthistoryanimalia]

Another for #WorldTurtleDay on a #TurtleTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

Albert Eckhout (Dutch, c.1610–1665) Study of Two Brazilian Tortoises, 1640 oil and paper on panel, 30.5 cm (12 in) x 51 cm (20 in) Mauritshuls collection

species ID = Red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)

"One of the artists in Johan Maurits’s entourage [in Dutch Brazil] was Albert Eckhout. Eckhout recorded the Brazilian people, flora and fauna in drawings and paintings. Like these two red-footed tortoises with their scaly heads, shells with geometric patterns and mouths full of sharp teeth. Eckhout painted them on paper.

The animals are grunting threateningly at each other, as the males do during the breeding season. But Eckhout made the animals more exciting than they actually are – tortoises do not in fact have teeth."

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Volume 6: Reptiles. Written by Bernard Grzimek. 1984. Illustration by Helmut Diller.

1.) Forest hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys erosa)

2.) Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)

3.) Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)

4.) Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) (prev. Testudo)

5.) Red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) (prev. Testudo)

6.) Russian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii)

7.) Pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri)

8.) Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) (prev. Testudo)

[aticketplz]

この動物園結構カメいるなーと思ったら、名前、遊亀公園だったわ😁

@遊亀公園附属動物園

[natysadventureblog]

[green-algae]

Some young, captive red-footed tortoises [Chelonoidis carbonarius] photographed by James Harding.

[davidstanleytravel]

The red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria) is often encountered by hikers on St. Barts, Eastern Caribbean.

[kaisercaimo]

Ephemera

Sint Maarten, Caribbean, September 2018