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 Difference

how do i tell the difference of a greek and russian tortoise?



09/03/08  08:02pm

 #1851082


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  Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1850790


 Difference

Russians are more rounded, and have a horny tip on their tails.

Greeks are more longer and have a rounded off tail with no tip.

Heres 2 pictures showing the diffrence!

Greek ~





take note, you have many different greeks...lybians, goldens, iberas, and normal greeks. These photos above are a mixture of ibera and normal greeks.

Heres russian ~





and a russian, notice he is more rounded than a greek.

Heres a link of a gallery fo all testudo species, it includes greeks (testudo graeca) and russians (testudo horsefieldii) and every other testudo.

http://chelonia.org/testudo_gallery.htm



09/04/08  07:12am

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  Message To: RepticTay   In reference to Message Id: 1851082


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i see the difference now,mostly.



09/04/08  08:17pm

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  Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1851566


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Yep! why you wanna know anyhow?



09/05/08  04:11pm

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  Message To: RepticTay   In reference to Message Id: 1852147


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two threads down, the one named "who am i?"
i can barely tell a greek from russian though.



09/05/08  06:32pm

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  Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1852273


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Ohhh i see!



09/06/08  12:39pm


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