Vital Statistics
- Name
- Speke’s Hinge-Back Tortoise [Kinixys spekii]
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Length_F
- 140 - 160 mm
- Length_M
- 140 - 160 mm
Description
A medium-sized tortoise with a smooth, depressed carapace with a well developed hinge. The shell of juveniles has a zonary pattern with concentric light and dark zones. These may persist in adult males while the dark zones break up in adult females.
Distribution
Savannas of central and Eastern Africa, through Zimbabwe to North Western and Northern provinces of South Africa, and along the lowveld and Mozambique coastal plain as far south as Swaziland.
Breeding
Clutch size varies from 2 - 6 eggs.
Diet
Varied; syzygium and other fruit, mushrooms, giant land snails, beetles and pill millipedes. | 
