Tortoise: Egyptian

adult females are 5" males about 31/2-4"Carapace is yellow to yellowish brown with dark borders around the scutes and domed.Plasron has a hinge. They are found in northeeastern Libya, northwestern deserts of the Nie Delta and Sinai Desert of Egypt. They like a dry environment Diet: grasses, cactus. hibiscus flowers and leaves, high fiber greens an occational tomato and calcium
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