He may share his name with a pancake but thankfully this is the closest this creature will be getting to a frying pan on Shrove Tuesday.

Senior keeper, Melvin Lear, said: “Pancake tortoises are named after their unusually flattened shell and live in rocky crevices and small caves in East Africa.

“They tend to eat vegetation and Savannah grasses and while they may well enjoy a pancake, attracted by their sweet smell, it certainly wouldn’t be good for them!”

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