Turtle/Tortoise Rescue Results

[ctoychik]

I just got this pics when i was out on the construction site. I have heard that there will be animal rescue as part of the construction project but i have never seen any results until today.

Two cases of turtles/tortoise that were being relocated. Pretty exotic looking. Thought i'd share for all those turtle/tortoise lovers... though i am fairly sure these are tortoise.

 

[ctoychik]

By the way, one of the critters in the top picture does not have any openings in the shell left once it pulls its head and appendages inside. Pretty neat - i have never seen anything like that before. See the photo below (it is upside down already)

 

[coura]

Ill give you 500 euro for thouse two turt boxes Ah ah ah
Nice recues, what will happen to them Hope they are not made for the stewing pot
Ok now, your first box is filled with leaf turtles Ciclemys dentata.
The second box is filled with yellow head tortoises Indostetudo elongata and one or another forsten´s Indostestudo forsteni(hopping Im spelling correctly). The turt in your hand, besides being one of my favorite species, is a malaysian box turtle Coura amboinensis (hence my nickname)
I have them all except for the forstens and one of my prime objectives is to find mates for all my tuts to see if I can make some babys
One important data here is to make you undestend just how endangered this species are in the wild. We live unfornatly in the midle of a "Asian turtle crisis" because they are searched for food, pet and medicinal uses. Ironicly the same pet trade that has reduced their numbers in the wild may just save them. Unfornatly is already to late for some species
Whit that in mind, see if you can find a good new home for them, so that your children and granchildren can also engoy them

 

[coura]

By the way, one of the critters in the top picture does not have any openings in the shell left once it pulls its head and appendages inside. Pretty neat - i have never seen anything like that before. See the photo below (it is upside down already)

That´s why they are called box turtles

 

[selki]

God is amazing huh brotha?!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Sweet looking turts and torts! I hope everything ends well for these guys.

 

[NilePufferFanatic]

God is amazing huh brotha?!

Amen

 

[benzjamin13]

Awww...how cute.

 

[davo]

Wow good collection. Hit the jackpot. Shame they have to be moved on, but at least they are and not being destroyed.

 

[HPIZZLE]

in the first pic(correct me if im wrong) but the bottom turtle appears to be different than the rest?!?