Thanks everyone for your replies,
Tom, you make a very good point about the lack of spurs on the thigh, a very telling factor in the ID process!..and you reckon a girl?
Are the Chaco's sexually dimorphic like most of our Aussie freshwater turtles...males being smaller?
I have still not seen...
Hi Again,
Thankyou all very much for your informed thoughts.
You guys have narrowed it down to either a Chaco or a Sulcata.
I have finally got hold of some more pics that might shed some more light on the ident...maybe even it's gender?
These give a size perspective and a plastron view...
Maggie,
I remember you posting that too. Must have disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on it's way here to me in Australia!....should have taken the Pacific Ocean route!
Lee
G'day friends,
Yep, It's quite a trooper alright! I can't wait to get up to the place where it is kept to have good look at it...I think I'm falling in love with the thing and all I have is three photo's of it....kind of like internet dating!! hope I'm not disappointed when we meet in person...
Thanks for all your informative replies.
Yvonne, Dessert Tort sounds like something I would eat after dinner!! ha ha, I know what you mean though.
Terry, Our licencing authority is quite strict and doesn't really allow for any special cases such as this. The people who have it now said...
Hi All,
As mentioned on my brief intro thread, I am from Australia. We have no tortoises native to this country and the keeping of them is restricted to suitably licenced exhibitors...zoos and wildlife parks.
This tortoise (hope I attached pic correctly) has been offered to me by a friend of...