Because I grew up in Tampa, I had the good fortune to attend "Nature's Classroom", an outdoor educational camp thing, about sixty-seven times. That means I know a lot more about tortoises than you do. For example:
Tortoises are not turtles.
Tortoises eat plants. Or maybe bugs.
If you feed your tortoise turtle food bought in a pet store, your tortoise will die.
Tortoises live in holes that they dig themselves. Rattlesnakes like to live in holes, but can't dig any. So sometimes a rattlesnake and a tortoise will live in the same hole, until the tortoise gets tired of the rattlesnake sitting on the couch all day watching TV and moves out in disgust.
What I did not know, is that tortoises can be pretty territorial, as evidenced in these two videos:
Repel the canine invader
and
No cat zone.
Sipping aqua vitae, spitting aqua fortis.
Do not mess with the tortoise.
ReplyDeleteDang,they seemed so determined to keep attacking.
This also reminds me of geese, which can be very aggressive as well.