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SpeciesTestudinidae
Reptiles

🐢Aldabra giant tortoise

Aldabrachelys gigantea (Schweigger, 1812)

צב יבשה ענק, צב ענק או צב אלדברה (שם מדעי: Aldabrachelys gigantea, מוגדר גם כ-Dipsochelys dussumieri ‏ וגם כ-Geochelone gigantea) הוא אחד הצבים היבשתיים הגדולים בעולם. הצב מגיע מאטול אלדברה שבאיי סיישל.

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Videos
3
Photos
6
Measurements
9
vs you
≈ 1.9× your weight
Conservation status
EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.

Key measurements
Body mass
117 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
152 years
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EX

This animal is extinct

Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 1996. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.

Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Aldabra giant tortoise

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
117 kgrecord 117 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
152 yearsrecord 187 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
20 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Omnivorous
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
1.22 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Other figures ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.91 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
117 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Aldabra giant tortoise yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Aldabra-Riesenschildkröte (de), Seychellenreuzenschildpad (nl), Aldabrachelys gigantea (it), Aldabrachelys gigantea (es), Aldabrachelys gigantea (fr), гигантска костенурка (bg) … and 19 more languages

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