African Pancake Tortoise

Description

African Pancake tortoise for sale

With its unusually thin, flat, flexible shell, and habit of fleeing rather than withdrawing into its shell, the pancake tortoise for sale is amongst the oddest of all types of tortoises for sale. In contrast with more species, the shell bones of most other tortoises are solid, whereas the pancake tortoise for sale has shell bones with many openings, making it lighter and more agile than other tortoises. Since this tortoise could easily be torn apart by predators, it must rely on its speed and flexibility to escape from dangerous situations.  Pancakes are considered a small tortoise breed or small tortoise species for sale are super unique, hard to find, and there for a little bit pricey! If you are exploring the pancake tortoise price, also known as the pancake tortoise cost, remember they lay one egg a year! That’s correct! Female pancake tortoises lay a single egg each year leaving us one baby pancake tortoise for sale.

baby Pancake tortoises for sale have flexible shells!

The flexibility of its shell allows the pancake tortoise to crawl into narrow rock crevices to avoid potential predators, thereby exploiting an environment that no other tortoise is capable of living within. The carapace of the Pancake tortoise for sale is brown, plus has a varied pattern of radiating lines on each of it’s scutes, helping to camouflage the Pancake tortoise in their natural dry habitat.  The Pancake tortoise for sale plastron is beautiful yellow with dark brown lines and light yellow raditating patterns.  Lastly, the head, limbs and the tortoises’ tail are yellowish to brown in color.  Sadly, its bizarre, flattened, pancake-like profile makes this tortoise a sought after animal in zoological and private collections, leading to its over-exploitation in the wild.

African Pancake tortoise for sale

CB reptile has more than just baby pancake tortoise for sale.  We breed over 25 species of tortoises including many rare types, large and small in size!