Pancake+Toroise

= __Malacochersus tornieri__ =



One tortoise that doesn’t have the often found dome shaped shell would be the Pancake tortoise. The Pancake tortoise has a flat shell making it easy for it to protect itself from predators. The flat shell allows the tortoise to hide in small areas where larger animals causing threat cannot get into. The flat shell is just one of the pancake tortoises many interesting features though, read on to learn more about this interesting reptile.

The Pancake tortoise is a reptile. They have a thin flexible shell. Its shell is normal 6 to 7 inches long. On the legs, they have bigger scales with points that project downward. Their shell is an inch or so high. It lives on rocky hills, Outcrops in arid scrub and savanna. Altitudes from 100 to 6,000 feet. They eat fruit, salad, and lettuce. Emerge to eat in early morning hours. The Pancake tortoise is quite small. Its length can reach up to 7 inches long. The tortoise has a very low, flexible shell. These tortoises are well adapted to their rocky habitat. They are amazing adept climbers. They make their homes under rocks or in small caves. To escape from predators, the will run into narrow cracks in the rocks, and use their front legs to tightly wedge themselves in. Slogan: You cannot flip a tortoise!

The pancake tortoise’s back is completely flat unlike regular tortoises it has the resemblance of a pancake, so that is how it got its name. To bake pancakes you need to flip them, but you cannot flip a tortoise. Emma, Emma, Justin, Enio