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Western hingeback price??

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A little off the wall question, but does anyone have an idea what an adult, extremely long term captive male Western Hingeback Tortoise (Kinixys belliana nogueyi) Would cost?
I have researched, but since they are rare now I am coming up empty.
 
I do not know if there is a standard price, but $400 to $600+ for a male would not phase me in the slightest if I wanted to work with the species. I would spend more for a female without batting an eye if I needed one for a project.
 
Glad if it helped.

When stuff like that comes in in a wave of imports (they will likely be called "farmed" in such a scenario because it makes people feel better more than any other reason), they can be had for cheaper, but I have no idea when that sort of thing is coming in. One also gets to contend with a pretty heavy parasite load with a lot of those animals, too. The benefit of missing those waves is you may be left with the strongest of the animals brought in. Those which outlasted their brethren. Can make for an induced selection bias, which is an interesting tangential topic.
 
The Western Hingeback is no longer being imported and have not been imported for years. That is why they are so hard to find. I think people have just recently started a breeding conservation for them.
 
Well, the belliana belliana have not been due to the whole heartwater thing, but some spekii and nogueyi did come in in the last couple of years (sometimes mixed together). I was potentially interested last year when there was a smattering here and there, but everything I found was too small then relative to what I wanted.
 
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