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Galapagos elephants have large turtle heads and long necks. The center of the carapace is high, with 5 vertebral shields; 4 rib shields on each side; 9 marginal shields on each side, with slightly serrated front and rear edges, slightly upward; 1 cervical shield; and a single, larger hip shield. The limbs are thick and columnar. The carapace, limbs, head and tail are khaki to bluish black, and some individuals have irregular black spots on the vertebral shields and costal shields, and the skin is loose and wrinkled.

The Galapagos tortoise has a large and heavy bony brown back carapace. The shell plate is indispensable for rigidly protecting the ribs in the skeleton structure.

The pattern on the tortoise's shell retains the character of a scute (shell segment), and although the outer layer wears to varying degrees over time, it is not useful for determining age with each year of growth. But the back shell plays a very good role in protecting the turtle's head, neck and forelimbs, which can be retracted.

Galapagos tortoise legs are large and stubby, with dry scales and hard scales. The front legs have five claws and the hind legs have four. There are 12 subspecies of sexual dimorphism, with the most pronounced male-female dimorphism being in the shell-horseback species, where the male turtle has more angles and a higher front opening, giving the turtle a more extreme appearance. Male tortoises of all subspecies of Galapagos giant tortoises generally have longer tails and a shorter concave thickened edge on the tail of the shell to facilitate mating.

Galapagos tortoises are cold-blooded animals (cold-blooded animals). Therefore, they need to absorb the heat of the sun after dawn. They need to bask in the sun for 1-2 hours a day, and it takes about 8 to 9 hours to forage a day. Most of them They are active and walking in the early morning and rest in the evening. The walking speed of this species has been observed to be approximately 0.3 kilometers per hour.

When Su Zhe and the others saw two Galapagos tortoises, they were just relaxing and basking in the sun, because the tortoises here were not yet adults. So these two Galapagos tortoises have half-meter long tortoise shells. It's particularly eye-catching here.

And even if the tortoises here will grow up in the future. These two Galapagos tortoises must still be the largest behemoths, because the Galapagos tortoise can be said to be the largest tortoise in the world. In the future, their body length can reach more than one meter. This is similar to other tortoises. No.

Because Su Zhe only exchanged two Galapagos giant tortoises, there are only two Galapagos giant tortoises in Su Chong's farm now, but this is already rare.

In addition to the Galapagos tortoises, the farm also has 6 Aldabra tortoises, with an average tortoise shell of about 100%. Although this is not small, it is still much smaller than the half-meter Aldabra giant tortoise.

The Aldabra tortoise is the second largest tortoise in the world, second only to the Galapagos tortoise. The Aldabra tortoise is a herbivore and will eat grass, leaves and woody plants, but sometimes it Eats small invertebrates, carrion, and occasionally even the carcasses of dead turtles. In captivity, Aldabra giant tortoises will eat more fruits, such as apples, bananas and compressed vegetable grains.

Aldabra giant tortoises are thought to have an average lifespan of over 200 years.

It is one of the longest-lived animals on earth. But this is the most difficult to verify, as Aldabra tortoises tend to outlive their observers.

In the reptile pet market and the impression of turtle lovers. The Aldabra giant tortoise is a giant tortoise that is probably famous and almost everyone knows and knows about it. The Aldabra giant tortoise and the Galapagos tortoise are both listed as the largest tortoises in the world.

However, if you want to raise these two behemoths, the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra giant tortoise, you must have enough space.

The third largest tortoise in the world, the Sulcata tortoise, is also raised in Su Zhe's Su Chong's Home Breeding Farm. The number is about 20.

The body length of an adult sulcata tortoise is about 80 centimeters and the weight is about 105 kilograms. However, the sulcata tortoises here are still very small, and their tortoise shells are less than 20 centimeters.

Although the size of the sulcata tortoise is smaller than the two tortoises, the Galapagos giant tortoise and the Aldabra giant tortoise, the baby sulcata tortoise is an exception because the baby's The Sulcata Tortoise was in Su Zhe's home and absorbed a large amount of Su Zhe's acceleration and strengthening powers.

In the future, when the baby sulcata tortoise truly reaches adulthood, it will definitely not be smaller than the Galapagos giant tortoise and the Aldabra giant tortoise, and it may even be far larger than that. It is also possible.

Because Bao Bao raised a Sulcata tortoise at home, she was particularly surprised to see Sulcata tortoises here, and there were more than twenty of them. She even specially dragged Yan Yuyan and Shen Let’s take a look in early summer.

In fact, the baby's sulcata tortoise was bought by Shen Chuxia as a gift to the baby when Yan Yuyan was with her. However, when Shen Chuxia gave it to her, the sulcata tortoise was still a small hatchling.

When the baby was lost, he also took the Sulcata tortoise with him. When Su Zhe saw the Sulcata tortoise for the first time, the Sulcata tortoise's shell was only about 5 centimeters. Unintentionally, Su Zhe absorbed a large amount of acceleration and strengthening power into the Sulcata tortoise, allowing the Sulcata tortoise to grow into a giant in a short period of time.

Su Zhe's sulcata tortoise also grew from a small tortoise to a big stupid tortoise.

Later, Shen Chuxia found the baby. Although she also found the big stupid turtle, she never thought that the big stupid turtle was the one she gave to the baby. Shen Chuxia always thought that the big stupid turtle was the same as the little turtle she gave to the baby before. Tortoises are two Sulcata tortoises, not the same one.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, no one else would believe that a sulcata tortoise with a body length of only a few centimeters grew into a giant tortoise of about 100 feet in length in a few months. , but this is indeed the case, and it was Su Zhe who single-handedly created the incredible miracle.

In addition to Galapagos tortoises, Aldabra tortoises, and Sulcata tortoises, many types of tortoises are also raised here. For example, the farm also raises Angoloca tortoises, leopard-spotted tortoises, Black-booted tortoises, radiated tortoises, Indian star tortoises, and Burmese star tortoises are among the tortoises. The number of each type of tortoise is around twenty.

There are not many tortoises of each type now, because Su Chongzhijia breeding farm has just started, and many people do not have enough breeding experience. In order to develop more reasonably, the first batch of pets in the breeding farm are each There are not many varieties.

But after that, Su Zhe would continue to send various animals to the Su Chong Family Breeding Farm.

Although there are not many tortoises here, there are many types of tortoises, and many species that are rare to see outside can be seen here. (To be continued...)