Two things about the fruit a Hermanns tortoise encounters in the wild;
It's availability is seasonal, not constant.
It bears little relation to the fruit we eat, which is engineered to be fructose heavy, appealing to our sweet tooth.
From that book, I have added wild blackberries in small quanties (equating to one or two per tortoise per week) to the diet
of my Hermanns, when they are available in the autumn
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