Today I decided to let both my Raidated's graze together in the garden for the first time. The Radiated I got from before kept chasing around the one I got recently and when the new one stopped, it would than raise it's body high(I guess to show it's dominance?) and the other Radiated(from before) would just walk around it in circles and at many times smelling it's legs or underneath. I was only afraid it would nip my new Radiated but it would not leave it alone. It's nose would go touching the new Radiated's feet like it was smelling it. Anyone encounter this behaviour before?
Normal tortoise behaviour?
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I have many radiateds, from one year to sub adults, and have never seen that behavior in ours. Are they both male? The raising up thing I would also think it was some sort of a dominance thing.
I haven't seen the body raising behavior, but when we first introduced the 2 GPPs into the group there was a lot of foot sniffing. I have no idea what it means or why they do it (they still do occasionally), but it never progressed into anything else like nipping. My leopards do seem to have a pretty good sense of smell, perhaps they're recognizing each other by scent?
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hmmm sniffing.. you got yourself a tortdog there Sam. hahaha
Possibly dominance!
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