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We have witnessed this behavior, becoming more frequent lately, in our oldest (approx 6 y.o.) redfoot. As he walks by the wood hides in his cage he backs up and rubs on them with his rear-end. It looks just like he is scratching an itchy spot on the rump of his shell. Our dog does this when she rubs under the picnic table out back to scratch her back. But it seems unlikely to tortoises shell gets itchy (admittedly I've never donned a tort shell so I guess I don't know). We have seen a bit of this in our male Indian Star too, but it's rare. What does this behavior mean?