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Originally Posted by jimothy
While I was away on a trip in Devon last week, while walking on Dartmoor and seeing some habitats that looked ideal, with global warming and increasing ambient air temperatures, could a wild population of tortoises ever sustain itself at these latitudes?
Would they ever get enough intensity and duration of sunlight? Would the soil ever be warm enough to incubate eggs and maintain a sustainable population? Would they survive the winters if air temperatures were higher? Would predators (and humans) completely destroy them?
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Personally I think the tortoises have half a chance, but as for eggs then no, as my tortoises lay eggs in my lawn and I leave them there. No signs what so ever of them surviving as temps are not high enough for long enough to allow eggs to hatch. Maybe in another 30yrs it might be possible:0)