Noob needs help identifying tortoise

Mittens

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Hi im new and from South America. Can someone help me identify my tortoise? What to feed. I played it safe with vegetables and leaves.

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Hello there and a very warm welcome to Tortoise Forum to you and your lovely tortoise.
i'm not brave enough to hazard a guess, but someone will have an idea soon enough.
 

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Welcome to the Forum!

It looks like it might be a baby Yellow foot tortoise (Geochelone denticulata).

" One study of wild Yellow-foot and Red-foot tortoises revealed some interesting data on the eclectic dietary habitats of these species in Brazil (Moskovits and Bjorndal, 1990). In addition to flowers, leaves and fruits these species were seen to consume:

Carrion

Agouti, peccary, bird, snake, lizard, and deer carcasses.

Live prey

Snails, ants, termites, bees, beetles, butterflies.

Miscellaneous:

Mushrooms (several species), sand, soil, pebbles, tortoise feces, bark."

(From Andy Highfield)
 

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Hello and welcome. Was this a wild tortoise? Where are you? I can't tell the species, but your location might offer a clue. Yvonne knows yellow foots, so I bet she's right.

Its fascinating for us to see native tortoises from other parts of the world. Thanks for the pics.
 

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Looks like a yellow foot to me also .
 

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