The injuries on tortoise shells as a depository of past human impact

Buică, Gabriel; Băncilă, Raluca Ioana; Tudor, Marian; Plăiaşu, Rodica; Cogălniceanu, Dan

doi:10.1080/11250003.2014.911370

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“…The highest percentages of natural and human-caused injuries (35.78% of a sample of 109 individuals and 35% of a sample of 580 individuals) in populations of Testudo graeca from Romania were reported in Dumbrăveni Forest Natural Reserve and Măcin Mountains National Park (Buică et al, 2014). Comparing with our data, all individuals from Agigea displayed only natural injuries.…”

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“…In chelonians, diseases have been frequently reported due to trauma (burns or fractures), malnutrition (calcium-related failure, vitamin D3 or environmental lighting), metabolic/genetic factors and a variety of bacteria or fungal infections (Keymer, 1978a, b;Frye, 1991;Homer et al, 1998;Lafortune et al, 2005;Barten, 2006;Mader, 2006a, b;Adkesson et al, 2007). Injuries on the tortoise's carapace and plastron are often observed in the wild, but most of the cases are relatively mild (Buică et al, 2014). Skin and shell infections are caused by either bacteria or fungi (Mader, 2006a) and all the disturbances occurring in the life of a tortoise are inscribed as a message on its shell (Lynn & Ullrich, 1950).…”

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High incidence of shell injuries in an isolated population of the spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca ibera) from Romania

Moraru¹,

Zamfirescu²,

Ciocănău³

et al. 2018

Travaux Du Muséum National D’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”

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Testudo graeca is one of the two species of tortoises from Romania, the other one being Testudo hermanni. It is well known that this species has a broad but fragmented distribution range and this fact labels this species as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. The population of Testudo graeca ibera from the Natura 2000 site “Marine dunes from Agigea” is characterized by a high percentage of injuries (84%) from the total of 43 individuals found alive. A high percentage of individuals have injuries on all the plates from carapace and plastron. All lesions appear to be chronic, suggesting that there is a series of predisposing factors, such as: inadequate terrain (concrete, metal, broken glass and other hard objects), high-density dog population and coprophagia, which could be a sign of unbalanced nutrition. This is the first report of a population of Testudo graeca which has such a high percentage of individuals with shell damage.

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