A guide with a land turtle camp near Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park .
A guide with a land turtle camp near Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park . The leopard tortoise ( Geochelone pardalis ) is a species of turtle and surrounded Testudinidae family living in the savannah of Africa, from Sudan to South Africa. This tortoise is a turtle grass living in semi - arid, grassland , although some leopard tortoises have been found in the wettest areas. This turtle is the most widely distributed in South Africa . It has a wide distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, including registered in South Sudan, Ethiopia , East Africa locations ( including Natal) , Zambia, Botswana , Namibia , Angola and South Africa . The G. pardalis are the fourth largest species of turtle after turtle African Rams ( Geochelone sulcata ) Tortoise Galapagos and Aldabra Giant Tortoise ( Geochelone gigantea) . The genus name is a combination of two words: Geo ( γαια ) meaning " land " or " earth" in Greek, and Chelone ( Χελωνη ) , meaning " turtle." Its specific name pardalis pardus is of the word , which means " leopard " and refers to the spots leopardas tortoise shell . The leopard tortoise has two recognized subspecies : Geochelone pardalis pardalis The less common , both in captivity and in the wild, is primarily located in southern Africa, in a small area comprising the western South Africa and southern Namibia. It is characterized by a darker (more black than the presence of yellow). Males of this subspecies are dimensionally larger than females, and in general is the largest subspecies
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