The mountain tortoise has a heavily marked shell, sometimes it is blotched and sometimes streaked. Adults are dark grey as in the top picture. The upper shell has no scale above the neck. (This is visible in the lower photo).
The upper shell (called the carapace) of the young are yellow in colour when very small and get darker as they grow. The lower shell is know as the plastron.
The mountain tortoise lays as many as six clutches of eggs in summer. Each clutch may contain up to fifteen eggs.
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