Also in human-altered habitats including waste areas, deserts, scrub lands, plantations. Hides under bushes or tufts of grass. Males may attempt to turn each other over on their backs. Female urinates on sand as she excavates nest. Eggs are approximately 1.8 inches long and 1.4 inches wide and weigh 0.7- 1.35 ounces.
Shells are very hard, dotted with numerous widely-spaced pores.
Incubation 47 to 147 days. There are 5 to 6 black neural blotches dorsally encroaching upon the areolae and 5 black costal blotches on each side. Ventrally there are 5 pairs of black blotches near sutures between plastral scutes. Chiefly herbivorous, but will occasionally take animal food. Eats grass, vegetation, fallen fruit or flowers, and occasionally snails.