Hello, I adopted a baby Sulcata a week ago. Unless I didn’t see it before, Today, I noticed these 4 bumps behind my sulcata’s back side today. Is this normal?
One of the common names for this species is "African Spur Thigh Tortoise". Also called "African Spurred Tortoise". Those are the spurs. There is also another "spur thigh tortoise" which goes by the Latin name of Testudo graeca. Avoiding this confusion is why some people prefer to use the scientific names, or different common names like sulcata, or greek tortoise.
Here is the correct care info. Most of what you find will be wrong and can often result in the death of your baby:
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...