Are you serious?!?!

[Weda737]

This is a redfoot!?

This is the quote from that site "One of the facilities we visited was the research station Rancho Grande in Estado Aragua. Pictured here is Gilson Rivas holding an extraordinary specimen of a red foot tortoise."
And here's the site.
http://www.uta.edu/biology/herpetology/Venezuela 2006.htm
Is that for real? I didn't know redfoots could get that big!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

WOW, interesting. Jumbo redfoot!

 

[nicoleandrocky]

:O
that is one big red foot!

 

[l0velesly]

Wow, I'm more amazed at all the dead reptiles and shells!

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

Could've been a redfoot ... or a yellowfoot.

 

[nicoleandrocky]

Wow, I'm more amazed at all the dead reptiles and shells!

I saw that too

 

[Weda737]

Yeah I wasn't happy about the dead things either, I'm just hoping that since it was a research facility these animals weren't killed as trophies.

 

[nicoleandrocky]

Yeah I wasn't happy about the dead things either, I'm just hoping that since it was a research facility these animals weren't killed as trophies.

That's what i was hoping, if they died of old age or natural causes and tests where being run for good (after they died of course) then i'd be ok with it.

 

[Weda737]

I wish I could have seen that thing alive! Can you imagine, it must be ancient!

 

[nicoleandrocky]

I wish I could have seen that thing alive! Can you imagine, it must be ancient!

Must have been so cool

 

[Weda737]

I wonder if it was male or female, Aren't males bigger? but don't males also have that peanut shape?

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To be fair, I know nothing about redfoot torts.

 

[Jacqui]

Yeah I wasn't happy about the dead things either, I'm just hoping that since it was a research facility these animals weren't killed as trophies.

Not killed for trophies, but often in order to have an actual specimen of the animal.

 

[Weda737]

Yeah I wasn't happy about the dead things either, I'm just hoping that since it was a research facility these animals weren't killed as trophies.

Not killed for trophies, but often in order to have an actual specimen of the animal.

Shhhh! I'm trying to be positive here, besides, if I were a researcher and found something like that alive I'd want to keep it alive and study it.