Family: tortoise Division
Chinese Name: European tortoises
Scientific name: testudo gracea
Genus: testudo
Diet: plant-mosaic for food.
Distribution: North Africa, southwestern Europe, Yugoslavia to the west between Iran and the former Soviet Union.
Characteristics: A one on hip, thigh, after a large cone-shaped scales, and the tail without any large horny scales.
Habits: habitat on the coast to an altitude of 3,000 meters of dry areas.
testudo graeca
Scientific name: testudo graeca
Origin: North Africa, Morocco, Tunisia Asian countries
Habitat: Dry grasslands and forest areas.
Body length: 16-18 cm carapace.
Optimum temperature: 15-30 degrees Celsius.
European tortoises European tortoises are the most common, but also because it can adapt to the cold temperate climate, will hibernate. Like them and Su Kada, long after the legs have spines, which is also European and Herman identify the main basis.
The main European tortoises at least four subspecies:
European tortoise, spur-thighed tortoise, located in Spain and North Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and other places. Emergence of domestic varieties are divided into general continental European and gold.
spur-thighed tortoise
Hermann's tortoise, hermann's tortoise found in the Balkans to the Black Sea Jian countries, Turkey, Russia and Iran and other places.
hermann's tortoise
Alice edge of the tortoises, marginated tortoise found in Israel, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula.
marginated tortoise
Egyptian tortoises, egyptian tortoise distribution in Iran only in Egypt.
egyptian tortoise
Distribution area in the Mediterranean periphery, so it belongs to the Mediterranean tortoises family. Size and body color variation are large, second only to the Mediterranean tortoises in the four-toed tortoise, is the second largest number of tortoises. Current classification, there are a lot of controversy. Basically, the widespread adaptation of tortoises than strong, continental is no exception, in an artificial environment are able to adapt to European, fruits and vegetables generally acceptable, it will eat most of the day of purchase, less need to adapt period. Reproduction is also very easy, as long as the pair feeding, mating spawning is not difficult. As the smaller, so every time the eggs are between 6-8 stars.
Habits:
European tortoise is considered a species can suffer, because the origin of weather patterns, they have a habit of hibernation, so able to adapt to the general tortoise can not tolerate the cold, I keep them the temperature 18-30. Humidity as long as they do not get too wet, soaked, then drying time is also no much of a problem. But as long as the air humidity of 40-80 words is acceptable, is not within the scope of this turtle would feel a little uncomfortable. European tortoises in fact it is quite suitable for a wide well-ventilated outdoor environment, and among us, most of my friends at home are not the kind of American-style garden backyard or something, so now have to keep us in the room , someone said, so it became a long, good resistance, the backyard at home near the line of the Well, but you know, European adult only 20 work points, so a small tortoise turtle at home accidentally is accidental injury, and European like digging plane, at home everywhere is easy missing backyard Oh. So I think the best is like a piece of fixed free-range domestic Suka Da arrangement could not be better to do, it means no cover large breeding tank.
I think their food is not really picky, almost to the informal, as long as the other turtles to eat when the food they can accept. Feeding, since He does not like its close relative, at least four feet as tough, fierce, not like in Egypt belong to the same land as shy, fragile, better interactivity, it can be very reassuring and other turtles polyculture, in short, very suitable for beginners.
Many European urinary uric acid is also a lot of cushion material with soil conditions (as they like burrow), but the total closure of dirty easily, often for a lot of trouble to, I use the tiles for easy cleaning.
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