Chapter 601: The Little Turtle Turtle and the Big Stupid Turtle
Galapagos elephants have large glans heads and long necks. dorsal carapace with 5 vertebral shields; 4 pieces on each side of the rib shield; 9 pieces on each side of the marginal shield, the anterior and posterior margins are slightly serrated and slightly upturned; 1 neck shield; The gluteal shield is monolithic, larger. The limbs are stout and columnar. The dorsal carapace, limbs, head and tail are yellowish to blue-black, and some individuals have irregular dark spots on the vertebral shield and costal shield, and the skin is wrinkled.
The Galapagos tortoise has a large, heavy bony brown dorsal carapace, and the shell plates are integral to the rigid protection of the ribs in the skeletal structure.
The pattern on the tortoise's shell retains the character of a shield (shell segment), and although the length of wear of the outer layer varies over time, it does not apply to the annual growth that brings a definite age. But the dorsal shell provides good protection for the head, neck and forelimbs of the turtle that can be withdrawn.
Galapagos tortoises have large, stubby legs with dry scales and hard scales. There are five claws on the front legs and four on the hind legs. There are a total of 12 subspecies of hermaphroditism, with the most obvious male and female being in the shell horseback population, where the male turtle has more angles and a higher front opening, giving it a more extreme appearance. Male tortoises of all subspecies of Galapagos tortoises generally have long tails with shorter concave thickened sides of the shell tail to facilitate mating.
Galapagos tortoises are ectotherms (cold-blooded), so they absorb the heat of the sun after dawn, bask in the sun for 1-2 hours a day, forage for about 8 to 9 hours a day, and mostly move and walk in the early morning and rest in the evening. The observed walking speed of this species is approximately 0.3 kilometers per hour.
When Su Zhe saw the two Galapagos tortoises, they happened to be basking in the sun, because the tortoises here were not yet adults. So these two Galapagos tortoises are half a meter long tortoise shell. It's particularly striking here.
And even if the tortoises here grow up in the future. These two Galapagos tortoises must still be the largest behemoths, because the Galapagos tortoises can be said to be the largest tortoises in the world, and their body length can reach more than one meter in the future, which is incomparable to other turtles.
Because Su Zhe only exchanged two Galapagos tortoises, there are only two Galapagos tortoises in the Su Pet Home Farm now, but this is already rare.
In addition to the Galapagos tortoise, the farm also has six Aldabra tortoises with an average carapace of about 40 cm. Although this is not small, it is still a lot smaller than the half-meter Aldabra tortoise.
The second largest tortoise in the world, second only to the Galapagos tortoise, the Aldabra tortoise is a herbivore that eats grass, leaves and woody plants, but sometimes eats small invertebrates, carrion, and occasionally dead turtle carcasses. In captivity, Aldabra tortoises eat more fruits, such as apples, bananas, and compressed vegetables.
The Aldabra tortoise believes that the average lifespan is over 200 years, making it one of the longest-lived animals on the planet. But this is the most difficult to verify, because Aldabra tortoises tend to outlive their observers.
In the reptile pet market and the impression of turtle lovers. The Aldabra tortoise is a giant tortoise that almost everyone knows about, and the Aldabra tortoise is ranked as the largest tortoise in the world along with the Galapagos tortoise.
However, to keep two behemoths, the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra tortoise, there must be enough space to keep them.
The world's third continental tortoise, the Sucata tortoise, is also raised in Su Zhe's Su Pet Home Farm, and the number is about 20 or so.
Adult Sulcata tortoises are about 80 centimeters long and weigh about 105 kilograms, but the Sulcata tortoises here are still very small, with their shells less than 20 centimeters.
Although the size of the Sulcata tortoise is smaller than that of the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra tortoise, the Sulcata tortoise raised by the baby is an exception, because the baby's Sucata tortoise is in Su Zhe's home, absorbing a large amount of Su Zhe's accelerated divine power and strengthening divine power.
In the future, when the baby's Sucata tortoise is really an adult, its size will inevitably be no smaller than that of the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra tortoise, and may even far exceed it.
Because the baby's family raised sulcata tortoises, she saw sulcata tortoises here, and there were more than twenty of them, she was particularly surprised, and specially pulled Yan Yuyan and Shen Chuxia to see together.
In fact, the baby's sulcata tortoise was bought by Shen Chuxia when she was by Yan Yuyan's side, but when Shen Chuxia sent it, the sulcata tortoise was still a small young turtle.
When Su Zhe first saw the Sucata tortoise, the tortoise shell of the Sucata tortoise was only about 5 centimeters, and later inadvertently, Su Zhe absorbed a lot of accelerated divine power and strengthened divine power to the Sucata tortoise, so that the Sucata tortoise grew into a behemoth in a short period of time.
Su Zhe's Sulcata tortoise also grew from a small tortoise to a big stupid tortoise.
Later, Shen Chuxia found the baby, although she also found the big stupid turtle, but she never thought that the big stupid turtle was given to the baby by her, Shen Chuxia always thought that the big stupid turtle and the little turtle turtle she gave to the baby before were two sulcata tortoises, not the same one.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't have believed that a sulcata tortoise with a body length of only a few centimeters would grow into a giant tortoise with a body length of about 80cm in a few months, but this is indeed the case, and it was Su Zhe who single-handedly created an incredible miracle.
In addition to the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra tortoise, as well as the Sulcata tortoise, there are many species of tortoises here, such as the Angoloka tortoise, leopard spotted tortoise, black-booted tortoise, radiated tortoise, Indian star tortoise and Burmese star tortoise, each of which has more than 20 tortoises.
Now the number of each species of tortoise is not much, because the Su pet home farm is just starting, many people do not have enough breeding experience, in order to be more reasonable development, so the first batch of pets in the farm, the number of various varieties is not much.
However, after that, Su Zhe will successively send all kinds of animals to Su Pet's Home Farm.
Although the number of tortoises here is small, there are many varieties of tortoises, and many species that are rarely seen outside can be seen here. (To be continued......)