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Old 02-01-2011, 11:40 PM   #1
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Default What tortoises do not hibernate?

I have someone writing to me, who says on the advice of a well known UK based Group that they should hibernate their Moroccan tortoises.

This brings me to ask what tortoises should not / do not hibernate?

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Old 02-01-2011, 11:49 PM   #2
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Species, where the climate remains constant all year, perhaps there is a wet and dry season but the temperature remains much the same all year, in climates such as these the tortoises would not hibernate.
Tortoises, such as redfoots, yellowfoots, leopard, Indian star, to name a few, their are loads more.
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Old 03-01-2011, 12:31 AM   #3
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Tunisian Spur Thighs don't hibernate, the tortoise trust warns against hibernating
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Old 03-01-2011, 12:41 AM   #4
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I personally wouldn't hibernate any North African spur-thigh. They don't get all that cold in the winter and if it does, it's only for a short period of time. They don't need to hibernate to breed and lay eggs.
It would be quite a list of tortoises that don't hibernate.

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Perhaps this is something we need to cover at a meeting as it appears many people off Forums etc believe all tortoises can hibernate
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Old 03-01-2011, 09:07 PM   #6
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Perhaps this is something we need to cover at a meeting as it appears many people off Forums etc believe all tortoises can hibernate
If it is not a true Hibernation then is it not called an Estivation that Tortoises can go through if too Hot or cold. If so then all Tortoises Estivate for periods of months.
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Old 03-01-2011, 04:29 PM   #7
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my hermanns don't

it could be said that no tortoise would hibernate if temperatures didn't drop low enough for them to do so
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I still dont get that word...Estivation. Al tried to explain to me...or you did Paul, but I still dont get it. When does it occur, why.....?
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Old 04-01-2011, 10:23 PM   #9
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I still dont get that word...Estivation. Al tried to explain to me...or you did Paul, but I still dont get it. When does it occur, why.....?
Estivation or Aestivation among Animals is a deep prolonged sleep, that occurs in the summer or dry season in response to heat and/or drought. They can lower there metobolic rate to do this. Unless i have lead myself up the wrong path, the Tortoise can do this also for winter and only mammals truely Hibernate. So the Tortoise is capable of Estivating most of the year, a winter and a summer as some of the S.Africans do.
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Estivation or Aestivation among Animals is a deep prolonged sleep
I could do with some aestivation tablets then i might not hear that ******* milkman at 5.20 every mornin with his ******* diesel engined pick up
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