Each yellow-footed tortoise in the wild reaches the age of maturity at about 8-10 years.

The yellow-footed tortoise can live for approximately 50-60 years.

There is some disagreement as to which habitat is the preferred type for yellow-footed tortoises.

The carbonaria group has the closely related red- and yellow-footed tortoises that clearly share a common ancestor.

The red-footed tortoise shares some of its range with the yellow-footed tortoise.

They are closely related to the yellow-footed tortoise (C. denticulata) from the Amazon Basin.

When a dam was being built in the Edo region of Venezuela, several hundreds of the red- and yellow-footed tortoises were captured for relocation.

The entire fruit is eaten, and the seeds are passed and can germinate, giving red- and yellow-footed tortoises a significant role in seed dispersal.

"It's almost a perfect form for an animal," Akemi Okamoto, 42, who works for an insurance company, said as she cradled Subal, her yellow-footed tortoise.

The adjoining Iguana Forest holds several green iguanas confiscated from airport customs, yellow-footed tortoise and North American box turtle.

The land dwelling yellow-footed Tortoise (Geochelone denticulata) or Morrocoy as it is locally known is threatened by high levels of poaching.

The front and rear marginals (scutes along the edge of the carapace) are slightly serrated in front and rear of young yellow-footed tortoises.

He is a recycled and hair-added version of Penelope the Yellow-Footed Tortoise from "Jim Henson's Animal Show."

Red-footed and yellow-footed tortoises seem to be a significant food source for jaguars in some parts of their respective ranges, such as Manú National Park in Peru.

Neither head bobbing nor ritual combat have been observed in tortoises south of the Amazon Basin, possibly due to the lack of yellow-footed tortoises in the area.

The Jaguar and the Yellow-Footed Tortoise - Stinky resigns from the food chain and tries to form a resistance against it and break the food chain.

Dooley the Armadillo, Penelope the Yellow-Footed Tortoise, Bernice the Warthog, and Guffrey the Vulture were featured in different episodes of Alt/Reality.

The yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulata, formerly Geochelone denticulata) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae and is closely related to the red-footed tortoise (C. carbonaria).

Turtle - This puppet was previously used for Penelope the Yellow-Footed Tortoise from Jim Henson's Animal Show and Jeremiah Tortoise from Bear in the Big Blue House.

In ranges that are shared in Surinam, the red-footed tortoise has moved out of the forests into grasslands (that are a result of slash and burn agriculture) while the yellow-footed tortoise has remained in the forest.

The yellow-footed tortoise is also called the yellow-foot or yellow-legged tortoise, the Brazilian giant tortoise, or South American forest tortoise, as well as local names such as 'morrocoy', 'woyamou' or 'wayamo', or some variation of 'jabuta'.

Yellow-footed tortoises are a large species- fifth largest overall and third largest mainland species, after the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra), African spurred tortoise, and Asian forest tortoise.

The puppets included Chauncey the Sea Turtle, Rhonda the Raccoon, Hector the Spider Monkey, Galahad the Grasshopper Mouse, Pearl the Pika, Penelope the Yellow-Footed Tortoise, and Ernie the Mongoose.

Bernice the Warthog, Cornelius the Crab, Guffrey the Vulture, Galahad the Grasshopper Mouse, Penelope the Yellow-Footed Tortoise, Dullard the Aardvark, Bunnie Bear, and Morton the Beaver appear in Neil's Puppet Dreams.