CONCLUSION
This study provides the first ever information and intriguing evidence on the excellent homing ability of the Pancake tortoise through mechanisms we now can only begin to understand. Further, the study demonstrates the species as exhibiting high site fidelity and territorialism. These ecological findings are important particularly with regard to the development of conservation and management action plan for this critically endangered species. More understanding on the homing behavior is therefore needed for successful establishment of new populations should there arise the need for reintroductions to depleted areas in the future. The subject has implication also for facilities that keep Pancake tortoises in captivity and whose breeding stock is obtained from the wild. In such cases, it is evident that the tortoises have high probabilities of suffering from captivity stresses related to homing especially so if they were collected from the neighboring areas. There is thus need to test the threshold distances over which homing by the species is likely (or not) to happen and to understand the mechanisms that make this behavior possible.