Gokhlaye
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So a few months ago I visited the Prague Zoo for the "Czech turtle keepers day". We visited the Indian start tortoise enclosure as you can see in the photos.
They were moved to the Gharial house a few months before this. Quickly after moving in, the caretakers saw them swimming around in the water area. At first they were very afraid, but after a few days they noticed that the tortoises go into the water just because they feel like it, swim around for 20-30 minutes and return back to the land area. It is very hard to see, but on one of the pictures where there are two Gharials from the back, one tortoise is actually crawling through it's open snout.
Of course I want to add that this is not the way to keep tortoises and these have the luxury to be pretty much monitored 24/7.
I also added a photo of the list of animals that live in the enclosure.
They were moved to the Gharial house a few months before this. Quickly after moving in, the caretakers saw them swimming around in the water area. At first they were very afraid, but after a few days they noticed that the tortoises go into the water just because they feel like it, swim around for 20-30 minutes and return back to the land area. It is very hard to see, but on one of the pictures where there are two Gharials from the back, one tortoise is actually crawling through it's open snout.
Of course I want to add that this is not the way to keep tortoises and these have the luxury to be pretty much monitored 24/7.
I also added a photo of the list of animals that live in the enclosure.
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