summer sleeping

Our tortoise is 4 years old and this is his first summer outside but he always seems to be asleep.You have to wake him up to make him feed, but if he has the opportunity he will go back to bed. Surely this can't be right?

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Aug 13, 2009
summer sleeping
by: Anonymous

Is it particularly hot where you are? When it gets too hot for them, tortoises will estivate, which is like hibernation, to escape from the heat.

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