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  1. Pond_Lilly

    Dwarf Redfoot?

    Interesting, I also have one tort (Cherryhead) Berry, and she also looks like a dwarf. She (I think) is now nearly 7 years old, around 6.5 inches and weights 843 g. She was raised exactly the same way, same food as others, yet now she is almost twice smaller than Sunny who is only 1 year older.
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    Winter eating slowdown

    I posted the initial thread years ago (https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/winter-eating-slows-down.37558/) and once again I see the slow down in eating in my now 6 cherryheads. Interestingly, in 2011 I posted roughly at the same time, Dec. 9. My torts spend their day outside, but sleep inside, as...
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    Burmese star tortoise is winning its race with extinction

    Good news! Captive-bred assurance colonies work, it is a very encouraging development for all tortoise enthusiasts as we all can be a part of captive-bred assurance colonies either directly, or through preserving genetic variety or sharing our knowledge...
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    Tortoises personalities study

    Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have personalities, too https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/madagascars-radiated-tortoises-have-personalities-too/
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    Florida Shed or Garage in the summer months.

    Nevermind, my reply was about keeping them outside.
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    Florida Shed or Garage in the summer months.

    No, they do just fine. I keep mine (juveniles and adult cherryheads)outside during the day, just make sure they have water and plenty of shade ( actually, the more shade you have the better). Be careful with hatchlings though, I almost lost one when I left him out in the sun with no shade to...
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Berry is the one yawning on the first picture, and the second closest to the camera on the second picture. I will try to take more pics today.
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Diet: Greens: dandelion greens, hibiscus leaves, lettuce, prickly pear cactus, including "pears" Mushrooms: bella Fruit: watermelon, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, grapes, pears, mango, papaya, etc Flowers: hibiscus, roses Protein: waxworms, krill, mealworms, earthworms, slugs, snails...
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Will definitely try collard greens, I usually do not give them those, will start now. Thank you!
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Good to know! One of these is yours, Clovis baby :<3::tort: He is on the second picture ( from the top) closest to the camera. He is a spirited little bugger, marches all over the the place, so cute! He is very colorful, his shell is getting lighter and he is marbling too.
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Oh, yeah, mango stone! I totally forgot about it. Mine also love to work on it, I should probably give it more. You are right about ridges being helpful, I did not think about that. :)
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Oh, okey, I am relieved, thank you so much, I will try to find that flat stone plate, good idea! Dude looked very cute this morning, I agree :<3::)
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    Early morning tortoises and overgrown beak question

    Today was such a lovely morning, so I took some pics of my herd. On one photo you can see Dude, and his overgrown beak, they all eat the same diet, and get regular cuttlebone, yet he is the only one with a beak like that. What should I do, should I get it trimmed at this point by the vet, or...
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    Turtles playing?

    engaging in "incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions structurally, contextually, or ontogenetically, and initiated voluntarily when the animal is in a relaxed or low stress setting." Thoughts? Anecdotes? Observations? Like, would a climbing on top of another...
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    So, how smart?

    Well, tortoises definitely are not dogs, but why should they be? We occupy different ecological niches, have different evolutionary pressures we respond to, deal with our environment differently. Tortoise can probably tell the difference between 1000s different types and subtypes of soil...
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    So, how smart?

    maybe aggression, but once the tort is "unflipped" everything is back to normal, no more aggression? But yeah, hard to judge about motives and stuff...
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    So, how smart?

    One more, definitely some sense of urgency there too :) https://www.instagram.com/p/BGpnW8dJvXt/?taken-by=rescuemom77
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    So, how smart?

    Few studies indicated the ability to follow the gaze and learning by observation of others. In all these studies they call redfoots solitary, nonsocial tortoises, but I am really not sure. I have 6 redfoots and not only they hang together (even when enclosure allows being alone if they want to)...
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    So, how smart?

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BJBwhXlBMTK/?taken-by=rescuemom77
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