Humans have affected original, natural habitats in many ways. We call these anthropogenic changes. One these is by introducing agricultural species (from entirely different continents in some cases) into wild tortoise habitats. Wild tortoise species that would never, naturally, encounter such items. In addition, we change the very nature of these agricultural plant species by selectively enhancing them for increased size and sugar content. What are the impacts and implications for...

Perfectly healthy wild growth. in a Testudo graeca graeca. Most captive tortoises are not so fortunate, however, and deformed, damaged examples vastly outnumber healthy ones. Poor quality advice and misleading information is a major contributor to this problem. We are increasingly seeing recommendations that people should rely upon ChatGPT and other, similar AI sources when they have questions about how to care for captive animals, or to learn about conditions certain species experience in...

An Egyptian tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) hatches in one of the incubators described here While you can buy commercial models, the "low cost" designs tend not to be very precise or reliable, while the "professional" designs are incredibly expensive. The good news is that you can make an incubator that will outperform all but the most expensive professional models at very reasonable cost and which is, in addition, very easy to build. by Andy C. Highfield This article covers building and...