Tortoises can hiss!

mango · 22-07-2006, 11:35 AM

I learned this yesterday!

For the first time ever, I gave my Horsefield a small slice of a strawberry. As he was eating it, it fell off the slate and onto the hemp. Bits were sticking to the strawberry and I was worried about him choking, so I went to pick the hemp off and move it back to the slate. And he hissed at me!!

Does anybody else’s do this?

Henry-flash · 22-07-2006, 12:29 PM

I've been hissed at a few times I think I read somewhere its when the tort withdraws into its shell quickly air is expelled causing the hissing noise.

22-07-2006, 11:35 AM	#1
mango Member Incubating Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 188	Tortoises can hiss! I learned this yesterday! For the first time ever, I gave my Horsefield a small slice of a strawberry. As he was eating it, it fell off the slate and onto the hemp. Bits were sticking to the strawberry and I was worried about him choking, so I went to pick the hemp off and move it back to the slate. And he hissed at me!! Does anybody else’s do this?

22-07-2006, 12:29 PM	#2
Henry-flash Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cheshire Posts: 9,304	I've been hissed at a few times I think I read somewhere its when the tort withdraws into its shell quickly air is expelled causing the hissing noise. __________________ Peter Keeping: Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca (graeca & ibera ), Testudo horsfieldi, Astrochelys radiata, Malacochersus tornieri and Kinixys belliana. The North West Tortoise Group

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