African Pancake Tortoise
Malacochersus tornieri
IUCN red list status:
Critically Endangered
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The African Pancake Tortoise is from Kenya; Tanzania.
They eat flowers, fruit, grasses, herbs, leaves, seeds.
They lay 1 egg at a time, usually laying up to 6 per year. Incubation lasts around 178 to 237 days.
African Pancake Tortoises live 25-30 years but longer in captivity.
African Pancake Tortoise
About the African Pancake Tortoise
The pancake tortoise is quite a different shape from other tortoises. The adult's shell is about 15cm long and only about 3cm high presenting a very flattened appearance, hence its name. The underside of the shell is very soft and flexible so that it can squeeze into crevices in times of danger.
Did you know?
Their unique soft, flat shell helps them to evade predators by wedging themselves in to small spaces.
