We have had a tortoise for around 50 years and a friend of the family has also had a tortoise around the same age but an entirely different species.
We have no idea what species either of them are but they are clearly very different, even their behaviour is different - one likes more sun than the other and will bask all day in full-sun on our rockery in the garden while our tortoise only likes a little bit and will go to sleep or stay in the shade, even their shells are distinct, the shape of them and their heads and everything.
Anyway, we only tortoise-sit a few months a year while they go on holidays and whatnot, so have no idea whether they would be like this more if they were together longer.
Their tortoise will ram and head but our tortoise, and chase it around the garden for ages just constantly ramming and head butting and our tortoise just doesn’t do anything and just keeps trying to escape it, they do it more or less every year, especially in the summer, not so much in the cooler months (before they hibernate).
To be clear, I also have no idea whether they are both females. I assume they are because they both have female names, so surely they cannot be mating, right?
Also, they don’t dislike each other because then always sleep together and our tortoise looks for the other one for a while afterwards every time.
Thanks. Peace.
We have no idea what species either of them are but they are clearly very different, even their behaviour is different - one likes more sun than the other and will bask all day in full-sun on our rockery in the garden while our tortoise only likes a little bit and will go to sleep or stay in the shade, even their shells are distinct, the shape of them and their heads and everything.
Anyway, we only tortoise-sit a few months a year while they go on holidays and whatnot, so have no idea whether they would be like this more if they were together longer.
Their tortoise will ram and head but our tortoise, and chase it around the garden for ages just constantly ramming and head butting and our tortoise just doesn’t do anything and just keeps trying to escape it, they do it more or less every year, especially in the summer, not so much in the cooler months (before they hibernate).
To be clear, I also have no idea whether they are both females. I assume they are because they both have female names, so surely they cannot be mating, right?
Also, they don’t dislike each other because then always sleep together and our tortoise looks for the other one for a while afterwards every time.
Thanks. Peace.