just a quick question while this Topic is being discussed, s there any mostly terrestrial turtles in Australia?
Australian Reptile Park has/had one. A couple of years since I was last there but it was in with the juvie start tortoises then. SMWS gave them a very small one about 8 years ago.
With a name like speedie it sounds like he'd be Russian. Most tortoises i have seen are very slow! lolSpeedie Gonzales was my second reptile. Cost 10 bob from the local pet shop. He was the result of a huge trade whereby Greek tortoises (mostly actually from the former Yugoloslavia) were shipped in bulk to northern Europe to be sold as pets each spring. Most died in hibernation the following winter but some survived.
Speedie did survive a couple of years. He was real quick and escaped though gaps in the fence on many occasion.
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This may be a silly question, but does Australia have any tortoises? Like strictly land based or do we just have normal turtles?
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