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| Name: |
Jerry, Lucy
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Age: |
Five months old
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| Gender: |
Unknown
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Kind: |
Argentine Tortoises
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| Home: |
Juan Lacaze, Colonia, Uruguay
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Jerry
(Chato), at the time of the picture, measures: Length: 48mm,
Width: 44mm, Height: 26mm It's darker than its younger sibling. It's
nickname is "Chato" ("Flat" in English) Lucy
measures: Length: 44mm Wide: 43mm height: 25mm They are Argentine
tortoises, (Tortuga de tierra Argentina) the scientific name is
Geochelone Chilensis. The scale is in centimeters (one centimeter per
square). They live at my parents' home.
Jerry is in the normal position, Lucy appears front, side and bottom
up (because the yoke sac is more visible on it). They are very special
because it is extremely strange that these tortoises could reproduce
in captivity. My parents have had the tortoises' parents, Pepe (male)
and Carolina (female), for 12 or 15 years, and this year the little
babies appeared. We did nothing to help it, they were born in a 100%
natural way. We knew that the tortoise was laying eggs, but we had no
idea of the existence of these ones. This springtime and summer
happened something uncommon in my country, it didn't rain for six
months. Perhaps that caused that the sand to be especially dry (and
maybe warm); probably it caused the births! We are enjoying watching
them grow.
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