Turtles & Tortoise Identification

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Thank you. Yes an excellent trip. 29 lifers including White-fronted Plover, Crested Guineafowl, Brown Scrub Robin, Crowned Hornbill, Kittlitz's Plover, Cape Longclaw & Rosy-throated Longclaw, Yellow-billed Duck, Rudd's Apalis, Black Harrier, African Dusky Flycatcher, Levaillant's Cisticola & Brimstone Canary.

Tanzania next in September - Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Lake Manyara. Should get Black Rhino & Secretarybird. Honey Badger is still my most wanted. :-)


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Wow O\/ O\/ O\/

Rosy-throated Longclaw, Rudd's Apalis & Brimstone Canary are high on my wishlist.

Please show us some birdies O0 0/0


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Will do.


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Go to Satara for honey badger, Mike! :-0


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Some great lifers there! ^Q^ ^Q^


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Hi folks,
last but not least I saw this Land Tortoise, maybe a member of the family Testudinidae, inside the Duwisib Castle in SW-Namibia. So maybe it's not common there, rather it's a pet.
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What do you think? Any ideas about the species? Thanks for your help once again.
Greetings from the Saint
PS: Sorry for the poor picture quality. :-(


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Leopard tortoise -O-


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Ja, looks like the normal one? X#X

How long was it?


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Richprins wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:11 pm How long was it?
Hard to say. :-? Approximately 15 cm?


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So ... my second thought

I think this might be a Chersobius solus, Nama padloper, Nama Dwarf Tortoise, Berger's Cape Tortoise, or Nama Tortoise

It underwent reclassification recently, it was previously known as Homopus solus


Good pets lol but their natural range is in that area.


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