This tortoise had just gotten in a fight with another tortoise when we saw him. If you look closely, you can see blood on his
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This tortoise had just gotten in a fight with another tortoise when we saw him. If you look closely, you can see blood on his
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July 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Is it weird that I want to reach out and pet him on the head?
July 9, 2008 at 5:13 PM
I have a pet turtle at home and we always refer to his little chomper as a beak.
The idea of a tortoise fighting with another tortoise is ghastly...and awesome. Do they fight in slow motion? Their little beaks are pretty sharp but they don't have teeth or anything. Do they just try to beak each other into submission? So many questions...
July 9, 2008 at 8:13 PM
@MB: I think if you tried to put your hand on his head you might pull back a bloody stump... he was scary.
@Andrea: I just wish we'd been there for the fight - we seemed to have arrived just after - I would have posted video. But come to think of it... video of turtles fighting? Might be too long a clip for YouTube.
July 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM
I don't know about fighting but I know what else they do in slow motion, complitments of the 3rd grade class animal science project at RMR elementary school.