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Red-footed tortoises have many common names: red-leg, red-legged, or red-foot tortoise (often without the hyphen) and the savanna tortoise, as well as local names, such as carumbe or karumbe, which means 'slow moving' (Brazil, Paraguay), wayapopi or morrocoy (Venezuela, Colombia), and variations of jabuti such as japuta and jabuti-piranga (Brazil, Argentina). [5]
The brain of a tortoise is extremely small. Red-footed tortoises, from Central and South America, do not have an area in the brain called the hippocampus, which relates to emotion, learning, memory and spatial navigation. Studies have shown that red-footed tortoises may rely on an area of the brain called the medial cortex for emotional actions ...
Tortoises (Testudinidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. Very rarely recorded around Montserrat. Not recorded nesting on Montserrat. Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Resident ...
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Red-legged tortoise may refer to: Red-footed tortoise, a tortoise native to South America. Wood turtle, a North America turtle. See also. Red turtle (disambiguation) ...
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C. carbonarius – red-footed tortoise [2] C. chilensis – Chaco tortoise [2] C. denticulatus – yellow-footed tortoise [2] C. niger – Galápagos tortoise – with the following subspecies: [2] [7] † C. n. abingdonii – Pinta Island tortoise (extinct as of 2012, but could be bred back from hybrids and/or persist as lone individuals) [2] [8]
Yellow-footed tortoises are a large species – fifth-largest overall and third-largest mainland species, after the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger), African spurred tortoise, and Asian forest tortoise. Typical sizes average 40 cm (15.75 in), but much larger specimens are common.