Hermann's Tortoise
Testudo hermanni · Reptile
A small land tortoise of southern Europe, 12 to 28 cm long, from Spain, southern France, Corsica and Sardinia to the Balkans and Turkey. It lives in Mediterranean woods, garrigue and meadows, and in dry hilly grassland or farmland where the woods are gone. It basks in the morning, hides at midday, comes out again in the evening, and sleeps under bushes and dead leaves from October to March.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Sleeps through winter
Where it lives
Grassland, Mediterranean Scrub
Gives
Sources
- Lindsey Lavender, Testudo hermanni (Hermann's tortoise). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2012.
- Hermann's tortoise. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Tortue d'Hermann. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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