Questionhi
i have a 6years old 8inches travancore tortoise...can i brred it with an elongated tortoise? since they are under the same roof on indotestudo's
tnx
AnswerReally unlikely. Vaguely possible, but REALLY unlikely. The very definition of a species is that it cannot successfully breed with a different species, even if in the same Genus.
Sometimes, in the wild, you get interbreeding along the 'suture zone' where the two populations overlap and individuals spend a lot of time with the other species. Not often, and not in all types of animals. I have not heard of it in any tortoise species yet, for example.