My little guy Swimming

[Josuergarcia]

This is my little guy about a year ago. I did monitor him very carefully when I did this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ppYkxBbvI

 

[l0velesly]

Cute He has a smooth shell!

 

[Tom]

I can't watch the video right now, but didn't anyone tell you tortoises can't swim!!!? Haha. We had a thread on this a while back. I think it's pretty cool to see them swim. My tortoise seemed very comfortable with her first swim.

 

[Katherine]

Adorable : )

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Occasionally parts of my pens will flood with real heavy rains, and some of the young sulcatas gravitate towards the deepest water and go for a similar swim. My leopards will do the the same but I have never seen an adult sulcata swim. I wonder if at some point their density becomes a buoyancy issue? They have so much bladder space and a lot of control over the amount of gas in their lungs (since they are not negative pressure based like mammal) so I wouldn't be comfortable saying its not possible, but I am still not convinced that an adult (70+lb) sulcata could stay afloat just do to sheer physics. My own adults show no interest but I would love to know if your tortoise continues to swim as he gains mass. Or perhaps if any forum members have an older swimming sulcata. And no, I am not thinking of installing an Olympic sized tortoise pool, just infinitely curious about their abilities...

 

[Tom]

ATC did a post of several of his adults in their big pond. I'm not sure of the depth, but either way it's a really cool pic.

If someone knows where that thread is maybe they could post a link.

 

[BrookeB]

thats sooo cool!

 

[Tom]

Someone also posted a thread of an adult leopard that would crawl into a koi pond and bob around. It would climb in and out at will and swim around on it's own.

 

[Katherine]

ATC did a post of several of his adults in their big pond. I'm not sure of the depth, but either way it's a really cool pic.

If someone knows where that thread is maybe they could post a link.

I don't know how to post a link but you prompted me to find this post, pretty cool picture! Titled "sully swimming lessons" if anyone is interested in searching it.

 

[Cadance]

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Sully-swimming-lessons#axzz1rk45yYLf

Here is that thread I think it will work Very cute video!

 

[ascott]

I believe you need to build spectator seating....lol...great reminded of how Galapagos torts and a variety of others likely moved from ones place to another...fantastic video...

 

[Laura]

thats pretty cool.. mine will sit in a puddle and flip thier legs.. not sure if its a swimming motion or mudd flipping..
neat that he floats...

 

[fishera79]

This is my little guy about a year ago. I did monitor him very carefully when I did this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ppYkxBbvI

Cute!!!

 

[HonuFonu23]

My sully works really hard to get out of his "tub". Lol. CUTE vid! Thanks for sharing.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

 

[hondaa]

Iv saw few books that leo tortoise are one of the best swimmers for a tortoise