Not at all. But it is saying that when hatching, over 15% of them have abnormal scute. Yet surveying adults they find only about 5% with abnormal scutes. So for some reason mortality is higher with abnormal scutes.So only one third make it to adulthood? In the wild that is.
here is a picture of my tortoise and is scuteI made a thread for those of us who have these types of tortoises. I hope you all will add your pictures so we can all follow along as the tortoises grow. Let's keep the discussions on the topic here in this thread, but post pictures over there in the other thread:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/a-thread-for-your-pictures-of-split-or-extra-scutes.155200/