For about the past five years a lady here in town gave me several Texas tortoise hatchlings every year to find homes for. This past summer she and her family decided that she was getting too frail to go traipsing out into the back yard to care for the tortoise, so she gave me her whole group. One of the males is in breeding form, meaning the two glands under his chin were quite swollen. He had been fighting and breeding prior to the picture taking and the glands bled on some of the other tortoises.
The males:
and the females:
Only one of the females is pure Gopherus berlandieri. The others are part berlanderi/agassazii.
The males:
and the females:
Only one of the females is pure Gopherus berlandieri. The others are part berlanderi/agassazii.