jayjds2

Chelonoidis becki?

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Well, is it? I'm pretty terrible at Galapagos tortoises. February 14, 2016.
@jay, what makes you think so this tortoise is a Chelonoidis becki?

GPZ - Brownsville Zoo for a good number of years has only maintained Chelonoidis microphyes species for breeding.
 
Um kifaru I think you mean jayjds2 rather than me. Personally I've no idea.
 
They actually did have an adult becki for a while, but not anymore, and never on exhibit. Not sure when it was there, but now they have a juvenile that’s not on exhibit.

Regardless, I agree that the picture above is not C. becki - at the time, I knew very little about the Galapagos tortoises.
 

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Gladys Porter Zoo
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