Health Checks of Rehabilitated Leopard Tortoise,Stigmochelys pardalis, before Release into the Wild

Physically Effective Fiber Threshold, Apparent Digestibility, and Novel Fecal Microbiome Identification of the Leopard Tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)

“…Stigmochelys pardalis is the second largest of 13 southern African tortoise species, native to many areas of central and southern Africa including Angola, the Cape, Nama-Karoo, Namibia, Sudan, and Tanzania (Rall and Fairall, 1993;Kabigumila, 2000Kabigumila, , 2001aDowns, 2008, 2013a;Fritz et al, 2010a). Stigmochelys pardalis is solitary and occupies a large home range (Hailey and Coulson, 1996;Wimberger et al, 2011), although there are confounding variables such as regional climate, mineral availability, and gender that make home range difficult to absolutely define (McMaster and Downs, 2009). …”