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I was doing some yardwork yesterday and I found this little guy walking around. Of all things a baby tortoise!
It looked as it has been living in the wild for a while, very scruffed up and it had foreign leaf matter in its feces.
Any ideas on what it could be? Sorry for the bad picture quality, I can get more if necessary. I was thinking greek or russian tortoise? Maybe Hermanns? It's hard to tell but he has olive-green coloration on his top scutes.
Thanks.
After comparing the tort to other pics, it must be a Russian tortoise, I think.
There seems to be nobody in my area (east bay area CA) that is missing a Russian tortoise, this climate/environment seems like it could be suitable for one year round in the wild. I wonder if there's a population of them here (probably not).
I'm still amazed that he made it this far with all of the predators and cars around here. Anyways he fell into good hands, looks like I'll be keeping him.
It is a russian. Juvenile for sure. Probably hatched in someones' backyard, escaped and grew up "on it's own" quite nicely. Just put it back in the yard and enjoy it!
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