Andy Adcock
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Venezuelan Tortoise (1 Viewer)
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birdboybowley
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Looks like a Red-footed Tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria)
Andy Adcock
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Great stuff Adam, thanks, what are your references?
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birdboybowley
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Google images!!!! :-O
Andy Adcock
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Thanks, I did wonder, a pity there's such a dearth of references for everything but birds.
There are two butterfly volumes but they're expensive and so far don't cover everything. I can't find any reptile or insect books.
Cheers, A
It is Red-footed. There are only three native species of terrestrial chelonians in mainland South America, and one of them, Chaco Tortoise, only occurs in Paraguay and Argentina, as the name suggests.
The ranges of the other two, Yellow-footed and Red-footed, do overlap in the north. Don't know whether Yellow-footed gets up quite as far as Venezuela, but this is definitely Red-footed from the pattern of pre-frontal scales on the nose, one large with smaller ones on each side in Red-footed, two large scales in Yellow.
The ranges of the other two, Yellow-footed and Red-footed, do overlap in the north. Don't know whether Yellow-footed gets up quite as far as Venezuela, but this is definitely Red-footed from the pattern of pre-frontal scales on the nose, one large with smaller ones on each side in Red-footed, two large scales in Yellow.
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