I observed a strange new behavior from one of my adult Russians, Pops.
Pops is very territorial with his food (he is alone so who is he defending it from?!) so he pees on it immediately after I set it down. Often he poops on or near it. Basically he is gross.
So the other day after he peed all over his food he walked a few steps away and wiggled his tail back and forth but as he was wiggling he stretched his back legs waaay back and used his heels to wipe the length of his tail. Took a couple steps and repeated, and again, and again.
It was just so peculiar looking I thought I'd share and see if anyone else's tortoise wipes its tail with its heels.
Silly tortoise.
Pops is very territorial with his food (he is alone so who is he defending it from?!) so he pees on it immediately after I set it down. Often he poops on or near it. Basically he is gross.
So the other day after he peed all over his food he walked a few steps away and wiggled his tail back and forth but as he was wiggling he stretched his back legs waaay back and used his heels to wipe the length of his tail. Took a couple steps and repeated, and again, and again.
It was just so peculiar looking I thought I'd share and see if anyone else's tortoise wipes its tail with its heels.
Silly tortoise.