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head nodding

by ashleigh
(temecula, california,usa)

my friend brought their tortoise over to play with my tortoise. my tortiose started doing this wierd head-nodding motion whenever he (or she, im not sure)was around the other tortoise. what was he/she doing? p.s. my tortoise is a desert tortoise.

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Mar 24, 2012

Box Turtle - Head Nodding to Humans
by: Lorraine

I am really attached to my box turtle
(she is 13 years old).

Sometimes she will look at me and then she will start to nod her head up and down. I will then nod my head back at her (this will go on back and forth for about 1 to 2 minutes). Sometimes if I softly sing to her (she will nod her head up and down at me). I'm really curious to know what it means when turtle's nod's there head to humans?

Apr 08, 2010

Head Bobbing
by: DonWilliams

Head bobbing in desert torts can be challenge to a newcomer (generally male to male) or trying to court a female and sometimes even just acknowledgement (as in when my old female does it just before taking a hibiscus flower from me as a treat). If males (and sometimes females) it can escalate into a fight.
One caveat, you should exercise caution in bringing together two tortoises as one can be a carrier of disease/pathogens the other does not have immunity to and even though it appears to not be ill, can cause the other to become so.
Information site on desert tortoises:
www.donsdeserttortoises.com
contact info:
DonWilliams@bak.rr.com
Hope that helps

Apr 08, 2010

Head nodding
by: Anonymous

That's how tortoises dominate/intimidate each other. Your tortoise is trying to put the other tortoise in his/her place.

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