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My Russian tortoise is about 2.5- 3 years old, and this is the second winter I've had her. Last winter, she remained fairly active, and didn't burrow all that much. She started turning down food in October, though I tried giving all sorts of different greens. Then she started burrowing, which she often does at night, but didn't often come up during the day. I left her lights on (during the day), but have brought her back up twice now because it freaked me out not to know where she was or see her moving around, but it seems like she hasn't been moving in days and refused to eat the two times I woke her up. What should I do? Is she trying to hibernate, or is it something else? One of my friends has a Russian who she said did this last winter and they just "went with it", but everything I've read talks about doing big preparations for hibernation, getting a hibernation box, etc.