#marginated tortoise

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Group check-up time!

Testudo Marginata, “Marginated Tortoise” - featuring: Homo Sapiens, “Casey Leone”

Source: [Link]Garden State Tortoise

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Splish splash Cabbage takin' a bath

supervised by his younger sister of course, she's making sure he's all clean.

Bonus baby cabbage pic

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🐢🧽 Cleaning a marginated tortoise!

(Original + slowed version)

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I just saw your post about your tortoise waking up from hibernation!! What’s species is it and how old?? I have a Red Foot that is about eight who lives inside for the winter and doesn’t hibernate

What a beautiful tort!! I love the bumpy shell and it looks a lot bigger than I thought red-footed tortoises were, the pic puts their size into perspective!

Mine are marginated tortoises and they’re about 15/16 years old now. Still young adults/late teens, but they’re big enough now to hibernate properly, when they were a bit smaller we kept them inside over the winter and put them in boxes in the fridge so that they would go into hibernation. When they were babies we didn’t do this as they were too young.

I don’t know about what red footed tortoises do in the winter, do they hibernate also or is it just a thing with certain species? I’d love to know more about your tortoise. Marginated are a Mediterranean species which live on dry hills and mountainous areas and they always bury themselves underground to hibernate, but being in rainy Britain it can lead to shell rot so we’ve built an outside hibernation box and and trapped them behind a barrier so they’d have to use it. SOMEHOW…we found one of them emerging from the soil earlier this spring, nowhere near the box and in his usual hibernation area. I have no idea how he climbed the mesh barrier. But they’re waking up now and all seems fine.

If red footed do hibernate, it’s interesting that when they stay inside they do not hibernate. I think that would also happen if I did the same with mine but we like to just have them do their thing.

Thank you for the lovely ask, I love torts!!!! 🐢

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Consider, if you will

The Marginated Tortoise

Such an elegant flowing shell

A tort ball gown

Even come in two flavors, Greek (left) and Sardinian (right)

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🐢 project tortoise 🐢

Meet Esio Trot

And his sibling M’Shell (we have no idea of the sexes)

Both are Marginated Tortoises, a Mediterranean species originating from Greece and Sardinia. When my brother got them as babies a few years back he and my mum were given some really dodgy care advice from the breeder that we recently realised has meant that our torts haven’t been flourishing as well as they should be at 5 years old (we trusted the breeder to care about the living arrangements that they were going into so assumed that his advice was completely reliable - it wasn’t. Do your own research and always consult a vet/reptile expert!)

SO, because I just graduated and have lots of time on my hands to do lots of research, I’ve taken over tortoise care and spent half of yesterday getting to know/playing with/bathing/feeding the tortoises and the other half picking weeds for their food for this week and drawing up plans for a new tort enclosure for when they come inside again full time at the end of the summer. Today we're hand-building a full-size wooden tortoise table for the two of them to chill out in as well as a smaller one for if one needs some vet prescribed space for health reasons or whatever

I am determined that Esio Trot and M'Shell are going to THRIVE and I’m hoping to hibernate them (or at least Esio, who's much bigger and healthier than M'Shell - although there’s loads of conflicting info on whether they even should..!!) for the first time this winter. I’m going to reblog this intermittently with progress updates as we overhaul their care and living situation and hopefully set them up for happy, healthy, long life.

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Some tortoises are good at training with swords

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Hey, here's my newest friend, my super tiny baby pet turtle. I named him after my favorite special agent - special agent Dale Cooper (and if you don't know who that is: shame on you!). He's adorable!