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This is interesting. When I was a teen in the 1960s I did turtle/tortoise rescue in Texas. Basically I would take Berlanders (Texas gopher) tortoises that were hit by cars, use sulfur (perhaps sulfa) powder from the vet and masking tape (no other tape available back then) and repair their shells. They were almost all males, as they were the ones out wandering across the roads looking for females. They were kept in a large courtyard with a few homemade ponds (this was in Corpus Christi) and plenty of veggies (less than perfect discards- not rotten, just ugly or over-bought) from a nearby supermarket, and fresh grazing, so no fighting over food and water access. They only had run-ins during breeding season and then only when we had the one female, but they had space to retreat. Eventually I released them all in the Welder Wildlife Refuge.