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Sorry to ask ... but the turtles sold for food - what is the attraction of eating them? I cannot see any reason to choose them in a restaurant and wonder why so many are eaten. Are they cheap food? Do they use them for soup or a main meal and do they really feel they taste superior?
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They are both C.oldhamii
Oh I know how that can get people into trouble describing new species. Danny
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Thanks Danny, I will post pic's of the other three, of which at least one I believe is a different species. Where do you think C oldhami may have originally come from?- Geographic location of this type species is of interest to me.
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This answer, and perhaps your own questions on this subject might be better moved to the earlier thread on the Tesco part in the Asian Turtle food trade? |
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They are from northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, southern Myanmar and northern Cambodia.
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That's what I thought. However, these Turtles were imported originally as very young animals from Jakarta in Indonesia. Which just goes to show how convoluted the Asian Turtle trade has become over the last decade or so! |
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They are very beautiful and very lucky to have you as an owner
They look so much nicer where they are rather than on a plate.
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This is one of my other Asian Leaf Turtles;Cyclemys spp. Which sub species is it?
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oh wow, never knew there was so many diff sorts of turtles
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Plums too, are popular with the Leaf Turtles
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