Red-footed tortoise
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Male red-footed tortoises compete for females and sometimes flip their rivals onto their backs.
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Male red-footed tortoises compete for females and sometimes flip their rivals onto their backs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red-footed tortoise
- Scientific name
- Chelonoidis carbonarius
- Japanese name
- アカアシガメ
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Genus
- Chelonoidis
How the Red-footed tortoise lives
They get most of their food from leaves, grasses, fungi, fruits, and flowers. Males and females use head movements as signals to recognize each other. After mating, females bury their eggs in nests dug in fallen leaves on the forest floor.
Smithsonian National ZooBasic data
- Range
- Southeastern Panama to South America
Where the Red-footed tortoise has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカアシガメ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカアシガメChecked: 2026-11-04
- Smithsonian National Zoo — Red-footed tortoiseChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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