rubytort:

Okay guys, help me out. Ruby? Or Ruben? Thanks! I wonder if my haunting suspicion is correct…

Ruby definitely looks like a female to me.  Her plastron is a bit concave  and from the angle of the picture her anal scutes look a little wide but regardless her tail is short and wide. From my experience (reading about it & with russian torts) the tail is the best way to tell once he/she is no longer a hatchling. 

Check out this site on sexing the redfoot tortoise: here

you’re gorgeous either way Ruby! 

anyone else??

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