turtles and tortoises

Turtles and Tortoises

General Care and Links:

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/ Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Information Collection~ this page is a must visit site no matter what kind of herps you keep, tons and tons of valuable information

http://www.tortoisetrust.org/ The Tortoise Trust is the worlds largest tortoise and turtle organization, There are TONS of great care sheets on this site.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rednine/ Hatchling Haven~ Website of Darrell Senneke, Director of the Tortoise Trust USA, this is a great site for husbandry, enclosures, and it also has a really nice search engine.

http://www.turtletimes.com/ Turtle Times~ If its turtles... its at turtle times... This site has everything! Links, Care Sheets, a Marketplace, Photo Contest, etc. Great source for just about anything!

http://www.tortoiseaid.org/ Tortoiseaid International~ Giving turtles and tortoises a pro-active voice and a chance on the Earth!

http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/herps/turtles.html Mikes Turtle and Tortoise photos~ Some of these pictures were even taken by me!

http://www.tortoise.org/ Homepage of the California Turtle and Tortoise Club~ this site has some of the most wonderful care sheets available. Home of the Chelonian Archives.

http://www.vidi-herp.com/index.html Carapace Press~ Great place to buy care related videos and books.

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/jamina/ Jamina's Homepage, lots of great information here.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/felicerood/ Felice's World of Turtles, great page with lots of information

http://www.chelonian.org/ The Chelonian Research Foundation

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Village/7666/ The Chicago Turtle Club

http://www.turtlecare.net/ Valerie Haecky's Turtle Information Page~ Tons and tons of useful information.

http://www.oocities.org/gussiesmalls/ Matt Malette's Introduction to turtles

http://www.turtletopia.com/ Turtletopia... the turtle lovers utopia

http://amaterasu.math.orst.edu:8080/~sharpej/turtles.html Turtles and Tortoises- This is a really funny page that is a diary format of the box turtles in this family.

http://www.crosswinds.net/~theturtlepages/ The Turtle Pages- This page has tons of turtle stuff, a great place to visit.

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Prairie/1454/ Turtles and Tortugas! Dedicated to the Advancement of turtles

Nutrition and Health:

http://www.turtlecafe.net/ Its the Turtle Cafe~ This is my friend Teresa Chirico's site, she sells healthy, natural food and supplements for tortoises and turtles, there are also many great links and much, much more to see!

http://www.turtlestuff.com/ Turtlestuff.com is a place where you will learn about nutrition, health problems, find advice from the "pros" on building beautiful tortoise gardens, and much more.

http://www.oocities.org/rainforest/2011/ Keith Benson, DMV~ lots of great info from a great Herp Vet.

http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/herpmed/salm.htm Reptile-associated Salmonellosis Information Page

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/shel_rep.html Turtle and Tortoise Shell repair by Melissa Kaplan, Fredrick L. Frye, and Katherine T. Belistle DMV

http://www.sonic.net/melissk/shel_rot.html Treating shell rot by Melissa Kaplan

Mediterranean Tortoises:

http://www.slowcoach.org.uk/ Slowcoach is based in the UK, it is geared toward the keeping of Mediterranean tortoises

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~slowcoach/slow/care/caremed/caremed.html Mediterranean Tortoises: Testudo Graeca and T. Hermanni by the British Chelonia Group

http://www.russiantortoise.net/ Joe's Russian Tortoise Site

http://www.oocities.org/LA_Kobe_Bryant8/ Egyptian Tortoise Care and Conservation Web page

http://www.tlady.clara.net/id16.htm The TLady's Hiding Place... Great care booklet on the Mediterranean Tortoises.

http://library.thinkquest.org/26653/ The Tortoise Treasury, specializing in the Egyptian Dwarf Tortoise

http://www.oocities.org/SunsetStrip/venue/5706/startpage.htm The Cairo American College Egyptian Tortoise Program

http://www.lizpalika.com/russian.html Learn about the Russian tortoise (testudo horsfieldi) by Liz Palika

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/russian2.html Practical Care and Breeding of the Horsfield's Tortoise in Captivity by Andy Highfield of the Tortoise Trust

Box Turtles:

http://www.oocities.org/RainForest/Vines/5504/ Tess Cooks boxie care and conservation web page

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/box.html Box Turtles by Melissa Kaplan

http://www.sonic.net/melissk/boxheal.html Box Turtle Health by Tess Cook

http://www.sonic.net/melissk/boxhouse.html Box Turtle Housing by Tess Cook

http://www.americanboxturtle.freeservers.com/ American Box Turtles

http://www-bio.tamu.edu/users/heather/boxturt.htm Box Turtle research and conservation home page.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/felicerood/index-8.htm Felice's World of Turtles- Baby Box Turtle Care

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/felicerood/index-4.htm Common Ailments of Box Turtles by Felice Rood

http://www.gpnc.org/ornate.htm The Ornate Box Turtle- A list of Kansas reptiles

http://www.tortoise.org/archives/terrapen.html#ornate CTTC- US Box Turtles by Michael J. Connor

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/er/factsheets/herps/Boxtur.htm Ornate Box Turtles- Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/wbox01.html The Turtle Pages- The Western Box Turtle

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/ebox01.html The Turtle Pages- Eastern Box Turtle

Water Turtles:

http://io.spaceports.com/~hurley/main.html Aquatic Turtle World

http://members.tripod.com/~Draybar/draybarturtles.html Draybar's Turtle Pages

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/felicerood/index-9.htm Felice Rood's World of Turtles Baby Water Turtle care

http://www.sliderhome.nl/ Slider Home~ How to take care of your Red Ear Slider

http://www.oocities.org/Petsburgh/2147/ The Turtle Shell~ Aquatic turtle web site

http://www.micronet.net/users/~turtles/pondfolder/pond.html Mary Hopson's Turtle Puddle. This is a GREAT site!

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy1/turtle.htm Robyn's Turtle Pages~ Nice water turtle page

http://members.tripod.com/~more_turtles/index.htm Shell Shocked! Turtles, turtles, and more Turtles! This page focuses on Red Ear Sliders.

http://gordasturtletank.homestead.com/home.html Gorda's Turtle Tank~ aquatic turtle information

http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/maps.html Map Turtles by David Kirkpatrick PhD

http://matamata.homestead.com/ The Matamata Page

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/snapper01.html The Turtle Pages- The Common Snapping Turtle

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/painted01.html The Turtle Pages- Painted Turtles

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/slider01.html The Turtle Pages- Sliders

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/3550/basking01.html The Turtle Pages- Captive Care of Basking Turtles (Sliders, Painters, Cooters, etc)

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/reslider.html Red Ear Sliders by Melissa Kaplan

http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/Reeves.html The Reeves Turtle- by David Kirkpatrick PhD

http://bb35.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/reptiles/turtle.htm The Yellow Mud Turtle

Sea Turtles:

http://www.cccturtle.org/ The Caribbean Conservation Corporation~

http://www.seaturtleinc.com The home of Sea Turtle Inc. on South Padre Island, TX... A wonderful place to visit and learn from the wonderful and knowledgeable staff of volunteers. The only US beach nested upon by the highly endangered Kemps Ridleys sea turtles.

http://www.turtles.org/ Turtle Trax~ A page devoted to Marine Turtles, wonderful information.

http://accstr.ufl.edu/index.html ACCSTR~ The Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research. You can join the CTURTLE email group here, which is an extremely wonderful source of information and a great place to ask questions you may have.

http://www.ridleyturtles.org/ HEART~ Help Endangered Animals- Ridleys Turtles. This is a site to help to conserve the most endangered of all of the sea turtles, the Kemps Ridleys.

http://www.seaturtle.org/ A great place for sea turtle information, tons of information.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/telematics/EuroTurtle/ Euro-Turtle~ Europe's first Marine Turtle website

http://www.co.broward.fl.us/bri00600.htm Biological Resources Division- Sea Turtle Conservation Program

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~biology/turtles/ UCF Marine Turtle Research

http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/ Marine Turtle Research Group

http://www.seaturtles.org/ Sea Turtle Restoration Project

http://www.bonairenet.com/turtle/turtle.htm The Sea Turtle Club Bonaire

http://www.seaturtlehospital.org/ The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center

http://www.kauaiscubadiving.com/green_sea_turtles.html The Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles in Kauai's Waters

Arid Weather Tortoises:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/reptiles/txtort.htm The Texas Tortoise- a protected species

http://www.deserttortoise.org/ The Desert Tortoise Council

http://www.homestead.com/sulcatastation/index.html The Sulcata Station!

http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/radiated.html Radiated Tortoises by David Kirkpatrick, PhD

http://www.desertusa.com/june96/du_tort.html The Desert Tortoise- an informational site about desert torts

http://home.earthlink.net/~rednine/sulcatacare.html African Spurred Tortoise (geochelone sulcata) by Marissa Armour

http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/sulcata.html Sulcata tortoises by Melissa Kaplan

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Plains/2868/ Rocky the Sulcata's Homepage

http://coloherp.org/careshts/sulcata.html African Spurred Tortoise- the CO Herp Societies care sheet

http://www.lizpalika.com/sulcata.html The sulcata tortoise by Liz Palika

http://www.lizpalika.com/leotort.html The leopard tortoise by Liz Palika

http://www.tortoise.org/archives/sulcata1.html CTTC article Living with Sulcata by Stan Levine

http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/pancake2.html An Overview of the Natural History of the Pancake Tortoise (malacochersus torniere) by David Kirkpatrick PhD

http://www.tortoise.org/archives/pardalis.html CTTC article Leopard Tortoises by Sandy Chase

Tropical Weather Tortoises:

This photo is called "Roar"... This is a baby redfoot tortoise that Mike Pingleton hatched out. Her name is Clementine. Photo taken by Ken Felsman.

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Meadows/4159/beasley.html Beasley the Redfoot tortoises page. This is a wonderful site full of great information on the Redfoot tortoise (geochelone carbonaria).

http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/herps/redfoot.html These are my friend Mike's redfoots, beautiful tortoises!

http://www.oocities.org/igsterious/Hingeback1.html Sexing the Bell's Hingeback Tortoise (kinixys belliana).

http://www.tortoise.org/archives/carbonar.html CTTC~ Red-footed Tortoise, Geochelone Carbonaria

http://www.kingsnake.com/rockymountain/RMHPages/RMHredfoot.htm The Redfoot Tortoise- A South American Treasure. An article from the March/April 1997 issue of Reptile and Amphibian magazine.

http://www.tortoisetrust.org/articles/feeding_redfoots.html Tortoise Trust article, Feeding the Red-foot and Yellow-foot Tortoise.

http://www.petlibrary.com/1tortsenneke.htm Geochelone denticulata notes- Incubator and egg information

Asian Species:

http://www.micronet.net/users/~turtles/exotics/exotics.html A most excellent page by Mary Hopson- Exotic Turtles (Asians and more)