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These are our adults, they're all between 30 and 42cm, except for the first one, she was only about 15cm and was found in a town, but she was in a good condition and was wary enough of people so we released her. The last two were ones that were kept on concrete and abused, they tried to drill...

Thank you, after researching more I agree, I have sent my aunt a message to give to the estate (where the tortoise was seen), for people to take more informative pictures if they see any tortoises especially because it's so hard to spot the little ones.

We normally do sit and watch for about and hour, it's extremely fascinating!

They're normally about 28-30grams when we release them and our smallest new babies are about 24grams and the biggest are 28grams. The last image is of one of our releases that was seen about a year later.

We quite a while ago when someone we know took about 12 adults from people who were keeping them on concrete slabs and barely feeding them, it was quite horrible, but we then split the tortoises between them and us and we obviously can’t release them so we got them to the point that they started...

No sorry, the images were sent by someone else who wanted to know if it was one of my leopard babies that I release there

Thank you!

Gauteng, it was seen in a farm estate in the western area of Gauteng

It was found in Gauteng, I first thought of the padloper but it’s quite round and not very flat, do you get ones that are more round?

Thank you, I’ve looked at pics and I think that’s the most likely

Is there anyway of telling if an adult leopard tortoise is p. pardalis or p. babcocki? We rehabilitate leopard tortoises in South Africa and we've recently got a whole lot of hatchling and theres a mix of p. pardalis and p. babcocki so i wanted to find out which of our adults are which. There...