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African Spurred Tortoise



[CITIES-listed Endangered Species]
EMYSystem Species Page: Geochelone sulcata (African Spurred ...: ...comm. Original name, Testudo sulcata. Common name, African Spurred Tortoise. Distribution, Central Africa from Mauritania and Senegal to Ethiopia. ...
http://emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Geochelonesulcata/Geochelonesulcata.html

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Geochelone sulcata (African ...: ...subfamily.....Testudininae () genus.....Geochelone (Typical Tortoises) species.....Geochelone sulcata (African Spurred Tortoise) ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/geochelone/g._sulcata$narrative.html

ADW: Geochelone sulcata: Information: Geochelone sulcata (African spurred tortoise). ... Fedorchuck, W. 1999-2000. "African Spurred Tortoise Profile and Maintenance Guide" (On-line). ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/path/Geochelone_sulcata.html.html

ADW: Geochelone sulcata: Classification: Geochelone sulcata (African spurred tortoise). ... pictures. Genus Geochelone (typical tortoises). information. Species Geochelone sulcata (African spurred tortoise) ...
http://biology.uky.edu/palmer/cites.htm

CITES: TESTUDINIDAE, Geochelone (Testudo, Asterochelys) radiata, Radiated Tortoise, I. TESTUDINIDAE, Geochelone sulcata, African Spurred Tortoise, II. ...
http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/kinixys.html

Kinixys Species: For beginning tortoise keepers, a much wiser investment would be a captive-born Redfoot, Leopard, or African Spurred Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria, G. ...
http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/pancake2.html

Pancake Tortoises' Natural History: ...going public. The size of the African Spurred tortoise, Geochelone sulcata, boosts its popularity in the pet trade. Another tortoise ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/search/queryhitturt.htm

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Index: African serrated tortoise African sharp-nosed crocodile African slender-snouted crocodile African softshell turtle African spurred tortoise African starred ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst9.htm

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--9: Manual 3: A-301.011.003.014:1-2. GEOGRAPHIC CODE: ET, ML, MR, NG, SD, SN, TD. COMMON NAME: African spurred tortoise, Grooved tortoise, Tortue sillonnée. ...
http://pt3.sbu.edu/VFTs/TheZoo/spurred_tortoise.htm

New Page 0: African Spurred Tortoise. CLASSIFICATION: Reptile. ... CHARACTERISTICS: The African Spurred Tortoise is the largest land tortoise is the world. ...
http://aztec.asu.edu/phxzoo/old/reptiles.html

Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish at the Phoenix Zoo: Black-necked Garter; Snake, Sonoran Gopher; Snake, Western Ground; Snake, Long-nosed; Tortoise, African Spurred; Tortoise, Aldabra and ...
http://aztec.asu.edu/phxzoo/old/trailaf.html

Africa Trail: Two African spurred tortoise have joined the Savanna animals. Watch for them among the giraffe, antelope, and birds on the African Savanna exhibit. New Babies. ...
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0699web/cold.html

Johns Hopkins Magazine -- June 1999: Hefting "Lady Di," the African spurred tortoise, is no easy matter. She weighs about 35 pounds now and will exceed 110 pounds when she's full-grown. ...
http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=290

Pet Columns: Captive-Bred "Herps" Make Good Pets While Wild ...: ...space it will require. "An African spurred tortoise will grow to 150 pounds and live over 100 years. They are available as babies ...
http://uio.mbl.edu/SOAPbrowser/index.php?func=vLang&code=eng&package=5&page=50

TNS Browser: 1809. AFRICAN SOFTSHELLS, Trionyx Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809. african spurred tortoise, Geochelone sulcata (Miller, 1779). African ...
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/vfdouga/zoo_projects.htm

zoo_projects: Operant Conditioning of Reptiles: Conditioning two Galapagos and One African Spurred Tortoise to Approach, Follow and Stand�. ...
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/vfdouga/vitae.html

Vitae: Operant Conditioning of Reptiles: Conditioning two Galapagos and One African Spurred Tortoise to Approach, Follow and Stand". Poster ...
http://www.public.asu.edu/~hozro/

Ann & David Ruhnau: How wrong we were. Mr. T is actually an African Spurred Tortoise. In as little as 12 years he could weigh 100 pounds. Imagine our surprise! RUNHAU SCULPTURES. ...
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/03-7Domesticated.html

Press Release: Domesticated Wilds: Join herpetologist Owen Maercks as he presents a six-foot-long water monitor lizard, African spurred tortoise, indigo snake, tarantulas, and other unusual ...
http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/taxonomy/chordata.html

Phylum Chordata: Montgomery College Library 3200 COLLEGE PARK DRIVE | THE WOODLANDS, TX 77384 | 936.273.7387 | 936.273.7390. LIBRARY HOURS: MON-TH ...
http://magazine.unlv.edu/Issues/Spring04/classnotes.html

UNLV Magazine - Spring 2004 - Contents: After all, what pet besides Mimi could compete with the wallabies, mute swans, exotic parrots, capuchin monkeys, capybaras, and African spurred tortoise? ...
http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/pagan/wiccanet.htm

Iowa WiccaNet: ...evolution to maintaining a menagerie of pets including a Newfoundland, a large mutt of a cat, an African Spurred and American Box Tortoise and Lovebirds. ...
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/biology/faculty/Chelres.html

THE CHELONIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: ...at the Institute include the Madagascar flat-tailed tortoise, over a dozen redfoot tortoises, the spider tortoise, and the giant African spurred tortoise. ...
http://tepserver.ucsd.edu:16080/~dacohen/bookmarks.html

Bookmarks: ...information on the proper care and feeding of Geochelone sulcata tortoises, which are also known as African Spurred Tortoises, African Spur-Thighed Tortoises ...
http://www.yale.edu/yibs/research/ECOSAVE.html

ECOSAVE: ...the statistical analysis of molecular variation spurred by the ... new fossil sites in the eastern African Rift in ... tortoises; it is the Chaco tortoise of mainland ...
http://quake.stanford.edu/~amy/

home_page: ...ll make them their own page later 2 box turtles (inside/outside) Missouri and Buttercup 1 African Spurred Tortoise (inside right now) doesn't have a name yet. ...
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanVid.html

African: Videotapes & Audiocassettes: Media Resources Center, UC ...: ...their imperial masters, his example spurred others on ... A modern day fable using traditional African story-telling ... Faso who acquires a pet tortoise which speaks ...
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.sh?PAGE=1395

ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913: ...one of several species of long-legged African geese of ... plover ( Hoplopterus spinosus ) having a sharp spur on the ... The eagle took the tortoise up into the air ...
http://www.usra.edu/esse/essonline/newsoctober2003.html

ESS News October 2003: Could Have Triggered Die-Offs, Spurred Bird Breathing ... New Study Ties African Drought To Ocean Temperatures, ... Ancient eruption marks today's tortoise, nature, 10/3 ...
http://library.osu.edu/sites/blackstudies/BookofDays2.html

The OSU Black Studies Library: ...the prospect of trade for this commodity spurred the shift ... British armed forces in a scramble for African land ... based on trade in gold, ivory, tortoise shell and ...
http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/flaminin.html

The Internet Classics Archive | Flamininus by Plutarch: For Hannibal the African, a professed enemy to the Roman ... may hazard themselves as much as a tortoise out of ... the people, to spite the nobility, spurred on the ...
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/watt/lectures4.html

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