After some of the other discussions here regarding the earlier captive breeding of sulcata, I got to wondering about when they were first being recorded as captive bred.
The 1979 edition of the International Zoo Yearbook has some photos of (but no actual article that I can find) of captive breeding, nesting and young of the African tortoise, 'Geochelone' sulcata at the Budapest Zoo.
The photo captions says that the zoo has raised the young to seven months so I would then assume that they were produced in either 1978 or even 1977 depending on how long before publication the article was submitted.
Although the photos are in b/w the adult animals shown look really nice.
The 1979 edition of the International Zoo Yearbook has some photos of (but no actual article that I can find) of captive breeding, nesting and young of the African tortoise, 'Geochelone' sulcata at the Budapest Zoo.
The photo captions says that the zoo has raised the young to seven months so I would then assume that they were produced in either 1978 or even 1977 depending on how long before publication the article was submitted.
Although the photos are in b/w the adult animals shown look really nice.