Category: Turtle & Tortoise Breeding
Scientists Use Drones To Count Olive Ridley Sea Turtles At Costa Rica’s Ostional National Wildlife Refuge
Drone footage revealed that sea turtle density during peak nesting season was about 2,086 reptiles per square kilometer. [...]
Galápagos Tortoise Breeds In The Wild For First Time In More Than 100 Years
The Duncan Island giant tortoise is one of the smallest of the Galápagos tortoises. [...]
Captive Breeding Brings The Burmese Star Tortoise Back From The Brink Of Extinction
The Burmese star tortoise is a critically endangered tortoise that saw its numbers dwindle to just a few hundred individuals in the 1990s. [...]
30 Western Swamp Tortoises, Australia’s Most Critically Endangered Reptile, Released Into Wild
More than 1,040 western swamp tortoises have been successfully bred as part of Western Shield, a breeding program to bolster the wild populations of t [...]
Serrated Hinge-back Tortoises Successfully Bred At Georgia's Dalton State College
The college says the species has rarely been bred in captivity. [...]
Northern River Terrapins in India's Sundarbans National Tiger Sanctuary
The Sundarbans, located between India and Bangladesh, because of a physical environment that includes saltwater crocodiles, numerous insects and a lar [...]
Zoo Knoxville Successfully Hatches a Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
Zoo Knoxville first successfully hatched a black-breasted leaf turtle back in 2005. [...]
Herp Queries With Bill Love: Temperature-dependent Sex Determination
What exactly is TSD? [...]
Aussie Teen Helps Raise Funds for New Western Swamp Tortoise Breeding Facility
Andrew Triglavcanin, a 13-year-old from Perth, Australia has raised $400 for a new breeding facility for the western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbr [...]
Keeping The Radiated Tortoise
Captive breeding makes the critically endangered radiated tortoise available to enthusiasts.
There is no vertebrate group facing greater survi [...]
Bog Turtle Breeding
The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) is a small and charismatic species. Captive bred animals are easy to care for and easy to breed. This spe [...]
Build The Best Breeding Enclosure For Your Russian Tortoises
Building an indoor Russian tortoise breeding enclosure. [...]
Breeding Blanding’s Turtles
Tips on breeding Blandings turtles [...]
Breeding Pancake Tortoises
Start with a pair of healthy Malacochersus tornieri [...]
Egyptian Tortoise Breeding Observations
Egyptian tortoise breeding information. [...]
Keeled Box Turtle Breeding Program At Tennessee Aquarium Yields A Newly Hatched Turtle
Newly hatched Cuora mouhotii brings the total number at the aquarium to six. [...]
Spine Turtle Hatches At Prague Zoo
Zoo is second facility in Europe to successfully hatch Heosemys spinosa. [...]
Leopard Tortoise Care And Breeding Tips
Stigmochelys pardalis will thrive in captivity and become very personable pets. [...]
Painted Terrapin Breeding
Breeding the unusual and interesting painted terrapin. [...]
Australia's Mary River Turtle Under Threat Due To Climate Change
Unusual Increase in incubation temperature impacts hatchling behavior [...]
Sand Color Influences Green Sea Turtle Egg Incubation
Hatching temperatures vary according to beach sand color [...]
Red-Footed Tortoise Breeding
Information on breeding red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis [Geochelone] carbonaria). [...]
Snake-Necked Turtle Breeding
Breeding the common snake-necked turtle. [...]
Breeding Golden Greek Tortoises
Expert tips on breeding golden Greek tortoises [...]
