Please help ID these two Redfoots

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mobster

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(I hope it's okay, but I started this as a new thread for you, so you would get more help...Jacqui)

hi im a newbie and a friend is offering me this two which he told me as:

Cherry Head Red Foot Tortoise
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Northern Red Foot Tortoise
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please help me id if he labelled it right.

thanks
 

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The first one I think is either a red foot or cherry head and the second is a I think is a yellow foot.
 

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It would be helpful to see the platrons and a better head shot of the second one.
 

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To me first one looks like red foot since the shell is darker but i may be wrong and I think the second one is a yellow foot since it's shell is more of a yellow and less of a red
 

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They appear to be correctly identified. The bottom animal is a very typical northern type red-foot.
The top hatchling has the two elongated prefrontal head scutes that is a cherryhead trait.
 

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They also look correctly labeled to me. The bottom one is NOT a Yellowfoot. It looks like an average Northern Redfoot to me as well.
 
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