The RedFoot Tortoise

Helping educate current and potential owners of Redfoot tortoises on their husbandry, so they can have a healthy, active tortoise and the tortoise can express its normal behavior and live a long, healthy life.

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Pre-Valentines Day Romance For Tortoises

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I saw this yesterday and had a good laugh about it.

The London Zoo has a 70-year-old giant tortoise named Dirk. He even has three much younger tortoise lady friends. Their species is endangered, so it’s probably best for everyone, particularly Dirk, if they get to mating. To set ……More at World-Class Pianist Brought in to Romance Tortoises – Geekosystem

It’s obviously done as a publicity stunt for the London zoo,since the reptile people there have to know the hearing capability of any Tortoise, even a Galop, is extremely limited.

The pianist could play all day and all night and it wouldn’t make one bit of difference to Dirk or the female Galop.  🙂

 

 

Redfoot Tortoise Survives 30 Years In a Box

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I couldn’t help but make a comment when I saw this article the other day – particularly since it was a Redfoot Tortoise!

Redfoot TortoiseTortoises are famous for living to a ripe old age. One giant tortoise named Adwaita is said to have lived 255 years in the Calcutta Zoo—he finally died of liver failure in 2006. But news of a tortoise that lived 30 years in a box ……More at How Did a Tortoise Survive 30 Years in a Box? – News Watch A family found their missing pet tortoise in a store room – more than thirty years after they lost her.

I’ll admit this is a fun article to read, but there is no way any animal even a tortoise could possibly survive for 30 years in a box.

Where’s the water source?  Without access to water any tortoise, particularly a Redfoot tortoise, would die within weeks of dehydration.

What could it eat, except the occasional bug?

How would it get the required Calcium and D3 for absorption in order to have a solid, healthy shell.

I could go on and on, but you get the point.

This makes for a good headline to get you to read the article, but someone isn’t applying even the most basic logic.