Category: Turtles & Tortoises Information & News

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Seychelles To Count Its Aldabra Giant Tortoises

Seychelles To Count Its Aldabra Giant Tortoises

With the captive populations of the Aldabra giant tortoises, the quality of their enclosures, diets and general well being will be observed with advic [...]
UC Davis Exotic Vets Remove Bladder Stone From 80-Year-Old Desert Tortoise

UC Davis Exotic Vets Remove Bladder Stone From 80-Year-Old Desert Tortoise

Tortie, a California desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) who has grown up with the same family for more than 60 years recently underwent successful s [...]
Newquay Zoo Announces Addition of Critically Endangered Big-Headed Turtle

Newquay Zoo Announces Addition of Critically Endangered Big-Headed Turtle

The Newquay Zoo in Newquay, Cornwall, England announced it has added a critically endangered big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) to its coll [...]
Sulcata Tortoise Care and Breeding

Sulcata Tortoise Care and Breeding

Sulcata tortoises will eventually need lots of space, daily attention, and dedicated keepers who align with their species-specific care and lifestyle. [...]
Arizona Game and Fish Department Has 300 Sonoran Desert Tortoises Up For Adoption

Arizona Game and Fish Department Has 300 Sonoran Desert Tortoises Up For Adoption

Desert tortoises range from the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in Southern California and can also be found in Arizona, Nevada, as well as in areas in Mex [...]
Two Arakan Forest Turtles Hatched At Tennessee Aquarium

Two Arakan Forest Turtles Hatched At Tennessee Aquarium

The Arakan forest turtle is a terrestrial species that is currently only known to exist in the bamboo and old growth forests of the Arakan Mountains. [...]
Specialist Turtles And Crocodiles Most Likely To Go Extinct, Study Says

Specialist Turtles And Crocodiles Most Likely To Go Extinct, Study Says

Issues such as unsustainable local consumption, diseases, and pollution are associated with the life history strategies of these animals and climate c [...]
90-Year-Old Radiated Tortoise At Houston Zoo Becomes First Time Father Of Three

90-Year-Old Radiated Tortoise At Houston Zoo Becomes First Time Father Of Three

The new hatchlings came as a surprise when a herpetology keeper happened upon Mrs. Pickles as she was laying her eggs at closing time. [...]
Two Critically Endangered Bog Turtles Hatch at Zoo Atlanta

Two Critically Endangered Bog Turtles Hatch at Zoo Atlanta

Zoo Atlanta announced March 9 that a pair of bog turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) have hatched at the zoo’s breeding facility in Atlanta. The turtles, [...]
Pet Businesses Respond to Florida FWC Chairman Barreto’s Call for Shut Down

Pet Businesses Respond to Florida FWC Chairman Barreto’s Call for Shut Down

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto's call for immediate action to restrict nonnative species was stunning to pe [...]
California Desert Tortoise Mojave Maxine To Emerge From Burrow, Signaling Spring

California Desert Tortoise Mojave Maxine To Emerge From Burrow, Signaling Spring

Mojave Maxine, the California desert tortoise equivalent of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, has not yet ended her brumation, but followers of her are eag [...]
New 2023 CITES Herp Listings

New 2023 CITES Herp Listings

Did you know that your pet herp may be a species of protected wildlife? Many exotic reptiles and amphibians are protected under CITES, also known as t [...]
10 Great Christmas Gifts For Reptile Lovers

10 Great Christmas Gifts For Reptile Lovers

It is that time a year. Make your reptile related gift count. Your reptile lover will be thankful! [...]
Keeping And Breeding The African Dwarf Mud Turtle

Keeping And Breeding The African Dwarf Mud Turtle

The African dwarf mud turtle, Pelusios nanus, has been sporadically imported into the United States for the past eight years, making it one of the new [...]
Jonathan The World’s Oldest Giant Tortoise Celebrates 190th Birthday

Jonathan The World’s Oldest Giant Tortoise Celebrates 190th Birthday

Jonathan, an Aldabra giant tortoise (Geochelone gigantea) who also happens to be the world’s oldest land animal, celebrated his 190th birthday at his [...]
Florida FWC Denies Captive Breeding Request of Diamondback Terrapins

Florida FWC Denies Captive Breeding Request of Diamondback Terrapins

The proposal, put out by USARK Florida for commercial breeding of the species would have reduced pressure on wild populations. [...]
Study Determines How Drone Use Affects Behavior of South American River Turtle

Study Determines How Drone Use Affects Behavior of South American River Turtle

From distances of 20 to 40 meters above, the giant South American river turtle was not negatively affected. [...]
Bert The Sulcata Tortoise Seeks New Home In Michigan

Bert The Sulcata Tortoise Seeks New Home In Michigan

Bert the sulcata tortoise is one of 100 animals that the shelter staff have cared for and are in the process of rehoming. The staff is emotionally and [...]
Gopher Tortoise Walks Into Concrete, Saved By Florida’s Peace River Wildlife Center

Gopher Tortoise Walks Into Concrete, Saved By Florida’s Peace River Wildlife Center

The tortoise was found next to a house that was being built, and the sanctuary speculates the nest the tortoise came out of was on an adjacent propert [...]
Aldabra Tortoise Genome Sequence Completed And Released

Aldabra Tortoise Genome Sequence Completed And Released

Hermania, an Aldabra giant tortoise who lives in the Zurich Zoo, served as the animal in which the researchers built the reference genome. [...]
Indian Narrow-Headed Softshell Turtles Hatch At San Diego Zoo

Indian Narrow-Headed Softshell Turtles Hatch At San Diego Zoo

The zoo has had three turtles in their care for 20 years and this past summer, 41 turtles hatched at the facility. [...]
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