A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Manouria impressa
This tortoise was trying to climb over a rock about his size, putting so much effort, in the end he succeed. This tortoise can be identified by its relatively flattened carapace, which has a strongly serrated rim and concave scutes, from which the common and scientific names derive.
Spotted this tortoise in a tourist farm site in Cameron Highland, Malaysia.
http://www.arkive.org/impressed-tortoise... - according to this article the scutes being flattened is normal for this species
Spotted on Dec 13, 2014
Submitted on Dec 14, 2014
