Redfoot Tortoise Full Documentary

[Octavious22]

 

[kathyth]

Great documentary!!!!! Thank you for sharing this!!

 

[tortdad]

I'm going to have to watch that when I have more time.

 

[mike taylor]

That was a cool video .

 

[domalle]

Thanks for posting. Sort of staged as a fairy tale story and the validity of some of the natural history information for the 'morrocoy' in Venezuela should be questioned. But don't mean to be critical. Thanks again.

 

[Octavious22]

Thanks for posting. Sort of staged as a fairy tale story and the validity of some of the natural history information for the 'morrocoy' in Venezuela should be questioned. But don't mean to be critical. Thanks again.

Your welcome I just wanted to share the video of a wild Redfoot doing its thing. I do agree with the fairy tale story tone but nonetheless I enjoyed watching a Redfoot in its natural range . Have you read the book "South American Tortoises" by Vinke & Vinke it's loaded with tons of info. and pictures of Redfoots in the wild doing their thing, it's a good book if you want to learn about how Redfoots thrive in their native habitat. I learnt that their habitat is actually pretty diverse they are not truly forest dwellers. They live in luscious savannah, and jungle patches found in the savannah plains called "matas" that are considered forests. They are found around rain forest edges but they make these trips to feed on flowers and fruits that they can't find in the savannah. And Redfoots from Paraguay live in dry thorn forest I was surprised.

 

[domalle]

Yes, I am familiar with the book and have read it a couple of times (or more). It is the most definitive coverage of all three mainland South American tortoise species to date. Some well-known people here on the TFO even contributed pictures that accompanied the text. It was just reviewed in Copeia, the Official Publication of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. September 2014, No. 2
Keep those videos coming and thanks again.