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Found the little padloper again today for the first time in a week. He is so hard to find, buries himself right under ground when sleeping so we can only spot him on sunny days when he moves around. Weighed him and he hit 10 grams - really just a large beetle!

Found this adorable little guy today. He is about half the size of a baby angulate, very passive and sweet, has a black belly and I can see the start of his little hook like parrot beak. He is less than 2cm long.

I wanted to find the two hatchlings from last year to photograph their growth. Looked for about 5 minutes and found six, including one of the babies. A minute later I found the other baby. Impossible to keep them in one place for a photo so I had to resort to putting them in a basket for a few...

These two hatched in October last year, when this pic was taken. They have done very well and are about 3 times this size now. We see them most days. They are very sweet and quite tame as they are used to being picked up by us. They still wave their legs and try to escape until we put them down...

Spending a lot of time watching the Angulates in the garden is surprisingly interesting. They thrive on the indigenous flora, but it was quite odd to see this fellow spending ages gnawing on an old bone. I guess they like the calcium and need it for shell growth.

Over the December tourist season some idiot thought it would be a good idea to paint this tortoise. I see him regularly and he seems unaffected by the paint, but he is very visible with no natural camouflage anymore. I rinsed him underwater a few months ago but the paint is oil-based and I don't...

I've wondered how our wild garden tortoises survive the colder times in winter. They don't hibernate but do disappear during colder spells. Luckily this winter a little fella has settled into an area where I can observe. He digs a sloping hole and gets into it every afternoon at about 4pm...

Found this little guy in the garden this morning. Must have hatched over the last few days, he is minute and his shell is still very soft.

I live in the South Western Cape in South Africa. I have a large indigenous garden filled with fynbos which is home to a thriving population of angulate tortoises. The angulates come and go at will and most are familiar to us, my kids have named them. The little fellow in the pictures arrived in...

We get a batch of babies every year and they are pretty adorable. My kids mark them with a dot of poster paint so we can track their movements. It washes off after a while but it gives us some idea of how they move and grow over a couple of years.

Hello there I live in the South Western Cape in South Africa and my garden is a war zone. It's large, totally indigenous and we have about a dozen Angulates that come and go at will. Lately, I can't walk outside without hearing scuffling, the Angulates are all at war. I can see why they are...