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Hi,

We live in the Middle East and just found 2 tortoises in the garden of our newly rented house. We already have 3 large sulcata tortoises and a greca; however, these guys are rather young and we can't tell whether they are sulcata's or not. Btw -sulcata tortoises are very common here (problem is because of the climate one rarely finds males!)

Would you please see the photos I posted on my picasa album:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jacky.menhennet

I look forward to someone helping me out here.

jacky x
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The tortoises which were found don't appear to be sulcata. They look like a form of Testudo graeca to me. Sulcata don't have black markings on the plastron (bottom shell).

Thank you Zovick,

Just like I thought - yes, they are Graecas .... I was just living in hope for little Sulcatas since mine are now so large!

Thank you
jacky x