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Old 28-01-2019, 02:01 PM   #8
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This is one of those captive hibernation situations that would bother me.
It's clear that tortoises would emerge in the wild if temperatures where high enough and then settle back down when they dropped, but I do wonder if they would eat or drink.
We're told that food in the gut is bad during hibernation, but could it be beneficial to bath a tortoise during a waking period to keep it hydrated?
We are also told that tortoises release Glycogen when they emerge from hibernation, what are consequences of depleted levels if a tortoise then reverts back to a state of re-hibernation?

As Jerry is now in his fridge, the scenario described is unlikely to happen but I would eventually like him to hibernate without the fridge so I do worry about this situation.
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