tortoise climbing

My Russian tortoise loves climbing his hides which I know is normal but the thing that I don't understand is why he loves falling off of them. He'll go to the entrance of the hide (the part where he can't climb up or down) and fall off of it onto the ground, I can tell he's doing this on purpose...

Hi my 4 year old Russian Tortoise has had a new enclosure (3 by 2 feet, he is 10 inches long) for about 4 months now.. He is a bit pampered and we let him roam in our balcony and home most of the times, so when he is in the enclosure he always wants to come out.. I noticed a few bugs...

I know margies love to climb and mine is an especially avid climber and tiny destructive bulldozer, but some days he repeatedly climbs a small log and slides off the side then immediately turns around and slides down the other side. I’ve watched him repeat this at least 10+ times before...

Hey guys. So I just recently got a red foot tort and she’s still a hatchling and I know they like to sleep a lot. When I take her out of her enclosure and lay her on me, she’s either in a very adventurous mood where she tries to crawl everywhere, or she crawls up into my hair on my shoulder. So...

I've posted a couple of times recently about how much my tortoise seems to want to climb over or up everything - his pot, the plants, even up the walls. It doesn't appear to be because he's trying to get out necessarily, and I have been partially reassured reading other people's similar...