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hello and welcome to a new episode of reptil.tv i have gone through extra exertions, just for you i wanted to show you the aldabra giant turtles ooops, one is biting me from the back let me show you this quickly i don't know perhaps, when you smell a little bit, they like to bite gently and this can hurt a little bit sometimes as well let me continue my introduction

i'm on the seychelles i would like to film the aldabra turtles they are available in stores since the last couple of years i wanted to check the climate, the breeding and that's what i want to show you now we are now with albert on his property here you can see a lot of giant turtles i think he said they are around 80 of them albert's father did breed them here already

and he took over from his father and there are several breeders on the seychelles mostly families but albert is doing this since a long time, probably has the largest amount of animals and he can show and tell us the most he doesn't like to be interviewed no problem, i did ask him most of the questions already i will explain everything one by one and in parallel we can film the animals

back there is a male he is trying to pair with this female and here is one doing it already it is mating time, end of february the female wants to leave its end of february, end of mating season they start to lay their eggs this is the population of adult animals there are 80 animals, 40 males and 40 females

the aldabra males are tolerating each other they live here together and are pairing everyone besides lots of matings, the ratio of unfertilized eggs is relatively high so its important they mate regularly the animals are very brave and try to gnaw the shoe laces in this compound we have young animals about 15 years old the midsize ones they can lay eggs ?

ok, they are to young to mate i will go inside so that you can see the difference in size here you can see the 15 to 20 year old ones so you can see the difference in size their shell, 40 to 50 centimeters in length another interesting point by the way as you can see this one is somewhat puckered the other ones are totally round here is one with separated shells

in germany nobody cares about that the japanese and chinese they don't like it, think this is not perfect but in germany nobody cares albert likes it, makes it special i think so too, has a zig zack texture so everybody ha his own taste and interesting enough, have a look, these are relatively round where was she ?

this one has some bumps people say this depend on the food and the sun and so on but all these animals get the same food and as much sun as they want and still one is bumpy and the other one smooth so it has more to do with their nature let me show you the big animals, they are also different this one is biting me again they can leave quite some scars in my sneakers and the are destroying them

so i will leave the biting aldabra turtles and show you the other animals about 50 to 50, male to females albert recognizes most of them by their stature nice example for a female the females are mostly round, like this one round shell, those are mostly the females and the ones with a lengthy shell lets check if we see the tail

those are the males on the left this nice round female and you can see the dragging results on their back is comes from mating, when the males sit on topand you can see the dragging results on their back is comes from mating, when the males sit on top and to our right a male a more lengthy body not quite the perfect look we expect and back there a nice female, nicely rounded

big male, you can see it also by their big tale and this lengthy body interesting this lengthy body can point out the gender, not sure at what age i also wanted to show a rather bumpy animal but albert says its a great female lays lots of eggs each year the animal doesn't care but that's what we don't quite want

more this roundish stature here you can see a male mating now while we watch some information about breeding mating is from october to february and the females are paring a lot and still the result is only 50% fertilization as you now can see very well stimulation is over the rain period its raring a lot in november and december

interesting about the change of climate albert says the animals become disoriented by the change of climate these days its not like in the earlier days, sometimes its now raining later in the year so everything seems to shift in timing so its not by the biological watch any more and the animals have problems with this also interesting, they can breed up to 3 times a year but not one in spring and one in autumn they lay eggs with 10 to 15 days they lay 10 to 15 eggs, 10 days later they lay eggs again

or even a third time 10 eggs again they don't lay them all at the same time so i thing its basically one hedge over the time of 10 to 15 days this is seen often interesting is also the weather and the temperatures the seychelles have a tropical climate i can show you the vegetation here as you can see green woods on this island here we are in a little laguna

its a tropical climate, not as hot like in africa under 30 degrees during day time in the shadowduring day time is 27 to 29 degrees celsius warm under 30 degrees during day time in the shadow during day time you have intense sun shine and the animals go into the sun but for a short time only and than they go into the shadow here is a big tree where the animals can have sun or shadow like they are doing in nature where the take short sun showers and spend more time in the shadow

at 28 degrees celsius this is now in the afternoon at 16:30h i have chosen the later time, when the animals are more active and they get food its not so hot any more, ok its cloudy as well but the animals are active, run around and mate this is the interesting time of the day also an interesting fact i expected to film animals in nature

albert says he has never seen any of them in the wild we are at mahã©, the main island of the seychelles and you can find these animals in private families all animals are second or third generation breeds on this island there are none in the wild to be found there are some smaller islands, where they where put back into the wild and on aldabra, where they have their name from estimating by looking at google-maps at least 1000 to 2000 km far from here

more towards africa, that's where you find the aldabra atoll there are animals in the wild but on the main island and around, there are no aldabras in the wilderness this one is eating it is so hungry, just wants to eat i just asked albert about adding minerals there are some snails around here but he doesn't add them, just feeding some leaves most are some weeds, growing here

don't know its name that's the main food, we just get it from this tree but that's not enough better are these weeds, growing around here you have lots of this albert, do you feed them every day ? minimum 3 times a week, he says albert is also speaking germany, he studied in germany he studied art

they don't like this ? they really want the leaves most of them have whet eyes you would worry that they have an eye infection lets ask albert there almost no animals with dry eyes just asked albert he says this is ok albert is about 50 and has grown up with this

he is living together with these turtles all his live he knows them every day he knows everything well let me show you the surroundings this is a laguna where the turtles are the weeds back there is the preferred food this is albert's employee, collecting this he will feed them with this they are biting into the shoes

interesting, they don't bite into the naked legs we just talked about gender he says this one is very flat as we see the tail yes, much shorter tail what weight do you estimate ? 50 to 75 kilograms here is a male perhaps a smaller one

now you can see in detail not as good with the camera long tail, as we have seen before and the belly shell, bumped in, known from other turtles as well let me put in my hand to illustrate about 10 centimeters deep 15 centimeters, ok lets turn them back but it doesn't happen to many times

it doesn't happen to often, that they turn them self's around back there come sthe food hope you can see it through the fence here comes the support ship albert says they know he is coming today we are disturbing them but when he comes with food, they run towards him hectic is something else

now the hectic starts a little bit delayed, usually it starts when the ship shows comes around here is the big migration this male is pushing this big female is running into the wrong direction this is a huge female ? a male, aha ! from the body its more a female, but it is a male if you want, turn it around

male ? indeed, a male young ? not so typical for a male it has a round body here the big feeding some more information while we watch them eating 20 to 25 years before they are mature stimulation is during the rain period

during winter, like in our area mating between november and february followed by laying their eggs usually he take the eggs out and breeds them in vermiculite but not in a breeding device he just puts them down here, at around 30 degrees celsius and they hedge after 3.5 month sometimes the females dig down the eggs right here in this mud

and when the hedge in this mud it takes about half a month longer it starts in march can spread from march to june due to the climate change this is no longer that precise in the earlier days this happened all around march to june but now you can have eggs in august as well something not happening before, when the weather was more predictable have a look, this one is climbing over the other one to get to the food

here we see most of the group eating a few are sitting at the exit most times there is food as well but today everything is happening back there but he can not tell which one is the oldest but what's your estimate how old they can become ? we don't know for sure, but around 100 years old and the breeding is already third generation ? may be this one is an old one ?

this one is at least 100 years old this one is amongst the biggest stay here, he wants to go to the food i estimate the body length at least 1 meter the weight i can't estimate albert what's your guess ? 100 kilograms or much more he thinks 100 kilograms, i think more can i lift ?

put the microphone between the legs yes, that's perfect for a slipped disk, that's how you get it you know what a slipped disc is ? that's how to get it ! they have less weight than what i thought this is because the aldabra don't have such a thick shell as the european turtles its much thinner if it would be as thick as the european ones in comparison, it would be to heavy for them it would be 500 kilograms or more for such a massive shell that's why they have a relatively thin shell

the young animals feel like leather that's normal for a young animal with a european one you would think they are missing minerals with an aldabra it feels soft simply, a big one couldn't carry such a big shell with 10 to 15 centimeters that's why they have less weight than what you would think about a european one albert and i will try to lift it alone let me estimate more than 100 kilograms

it has around 150 kilograms it was a good test here are some young animals this is the teenager area well closed albert just told us that this week they stole two animals from another breeder here two young ones to show you the size how old are they ? some ten years

5 to 10 years here are smaller ones back there they are around 10 years and you can tell about their gender ? difficult aha, here, like a bra you think most are females around here ? to early, they are still to flat and the shape, the males are longer sometimes ?

so the females round and shorter this might be a female because it is short and round ? the long one here may be a male ? this is not exact and here the babies we said they lay their eggs from march to may hedge 4 month later so they hedged between september and november you can see different sizes

he is doing a race that's the aldabra kindergarten one turned around that can happen, albert tells us and back again and a view from above a nice sequence for the end in the middle of these gigantic animals, with some smaller ones around i will show you the real big ones as well

a nice ending scene, the aldabra's around me smacking quite well like back home, with my three kids at the table that's what i wanted to show, the beautiful gigantic aldabras here on the seychelles unfortunately not in the wild these big turtles that's it for today, go and see the seychelles, if you have a chance, very nice visit these turtles

stay true and check these big balls now we have again the betty ford appearance i couldn't get my hands out have a look, i'm surrounded by really big turtles each one nicer than the other one wait, stop, did we push record?

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