How do you tell the age of a tortoise?

C-Turtle

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You can't tell the age of any tortoise by its growth. Where ever you got that info it's wrong

I wouldn’t be so sure. Though it is definitely not an exact science yet, skeletochronology is a science with great promise for the future of chelonians. Though I am not as well versed in tortoises, I do have experience researching sea turtles, and I can definitely say that some papers have come out in the past 3-5 years that do in fact give validity to the presence of age-specific annuli in scutes.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...=en&as_sdt=0,5#d=gs_qabs&p=&u=#p=bXoq6uL2EaQJ
 

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