My wife and I visited the St. Louis zoo on Friday and did their behind the scenes tour with their Aldabras. It was a lot of fun getting to be Aldabraman for a little bit! It is a really great zoo and the keeper was very knowledgeable and informed, more so than any other zoo I have visited. I would definitely recommend checking the zoo out if you are able to, its free and the tours are very reasonably priced.
This group was mostly Aldabras with 1 female Galop, which is the slightly pyramided one in the pictures. They used to keep their huge Amazon Basin yellowfoots with them in years past, but they changed because the yellowfoots were not doing well in a group setting. The keeper mentioned they are hoping to expand their enclosure in the coming years, because they know and want them to have more space. There is an outdoor area but it wasnt warm enough for them to be out there just yet.
I took tons of pictures of the other turtles and torts at the zoo but I didnt want to make this post massive with pics, if anyone would like to see them I would be happy to post more. They had some really niced Radiated and also Spider torts which the keeper said they have been highly successful in breeding.
This group was mostly Aldabras with 1 female Galop, which is the slightly pyramided one in the pictures. They used to keep their huge Amazon Basin yellowfoots with them in years past, but they changed because the yellowfoots were not doing well in a group setting. The keeper mentioned they are hoping to expand their enclosure in the coming years, because they know and want them to have more space. There is an outdoor area but it wasnt warm enough for them to be out there just yet.
I took tons of pictures of the other turtles and torts at the zoo but I didnt want to make this post massive with pics, if anyone would like to see them I would be happy to post more. They had some really niced Radiated and also Spider torts which the keeper said they have been highly successful in breeding.
