I fed this female box tortoise some raspberries at the beginning of the summer. Now, she follows me all over the garden, and visits me almost daily looking for handouts.

[u/abhitchc]

[u/Nuicakes]

I'm imagining a creep* of tortoises waiting in the yard chanting "All Hail abhitchc!"

• a group of tortoises is called a creep.

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I have caught her doing the dirty, so she will at least have children to tell tales of the fruit God.

[u/markovianprocess → u/abhitchc]

I've become mildly obsessed with videos of turtles mating because of the ridiculous and hilarious sounds they make (did you know turtles can vocalize?).

100% I'm on some kind of a list.

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While on a holiday at a Greek resort many, many years ago, my mom and I would go to the archery range every day. The shrubs at the entrance were the love hotel for the local tortoise population, and it was so noisy, not because of the vocalisation, but because of their shells banging together!

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Years ago my wife's family and I visited one of those companies that does animal shows at birthday parties, etc. Curious Critters or something like that.

At one point the girl guiding the tour turns to us before entering the Reptile Room and is all like "OK, so it's mating season for the turtles and, I should warn you, they don't have any shame."

We enter to a cacophony of clacking and grunting of all pitches as turtles of all sizes in various tanks furiously continue to make babies, completely ignoring our presence.

She points out, over the din, some snake and how it's venomous, etc. and says to my brother in-law "when you leave here today you'll be able to tell people you saw such and such venomous snake!" and he's like "lady, when we leave here we aren't going to be talking about the snake" 🤣