Why is my TORTOISE SO AGGRESSIVE?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2018
- do you have an aggressive hermann's tortoise or other type of reptile? Kenan talks about some of the possible reasons for it with his crazy greek tortoise that lives with the rhino iguanas.
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Lmao i like that that saying-“if u cant run away from a tortoise, u have a bigger problem” 😂😂😂
Paulo Eusebio hence “bigger” implying someone is overweight and lazy dumbass
I was just giggling at this comment , i own 2 hermanns and cant run away from them...best support pets ive ever had xx
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Hi Johawn, thanks!
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Kamp Kenan I’m your biggest fan and I love to help TH-camrs.Can I ask you for one favor can you subscribe to my channel
What's up Amy:)
Mine sometimes chased me, too. When it reached me, it put its head on my foot or hand. Very cute!!!
That sounds like awesomeness!! lol You must be a very good parent based on that reaction :)
Same I just go outside and he just keeps following me trying to bite my toes
I love tortoises and turtle they are just one of the greatest animals on earth
Agreed!
Next to all species of lizards
I like ants
Gutt's beetle hutt, Well Said! :)
Yeees!
That little biter is about the cutest thing I've ever seen!
Thanks for doing such great videos all the time, love watching and learning!
Hi Kenan, thanks so much for answering my question. I will definitely try the brightly coloured ball and see how we get on. If not I’ll have to persuade the mrs for a female ha.
Keep in mind though, that with hermans toirtoises you should have at least a 1:3 male - female ratio. So that means you would have to get at least 3 females for your male. If you had only one female it could get very stressful and even dangerous for the female because male hermans tortoises are known for persuing the femals and ramming them during the breeding season. So if there's only one female your male will constantly persue the same female. So either keep the male animal by itself or build a whole group with at least 4 animals.
Another thing you could try... Is get him a garden tortoise ornament. Basicly a fake tortoise he can.... Have his way with 😅.
I have female Hermanns and they are both very gentle. My spurthighed are the aggressive ones.
Did the brightly coloured ball work for your male Hermann's? Our 19 y/o Hermann's girl isn't really bitey, unless she feels like the amount of food we gave her wasn't enough... and especially when my girlfriend has red nail polish on her toes... :P
Keir Gibbons We had also Greek tortoise. He loved tomatoes and watermelon :) his home was in our sauna because the floor was colder over there. Every morning he walked to the kitchen and scraped the fridge with his arms because he knew where the salaf and tomatoes are. Sometimes he came to knock our doors with his little toes, to wake us up and give him food :D During summer if he wanted to go out into the Sun, he went by himself, sometimes he flipped over because he had to climb over one obstacle. He even had his own sandbox outside where he dug his burrow. When he wanted to come back in, he came (all dirty of course). He was also aggressive sometimes and tried to snap your toes and fingers, but sometimes he just fell asleep next to me when I was laying on the floor. One good,trick was to give him a cherry tomato. He had to chase it down before he could grab and eat it so that way he also consumed the extra energy he had.
When he had eaten outside (and had plenty of food), after he had finished he had no interest in biting. He just wanted to find a peaceful place to take a nap, either a warm place in the Sun or a colder, shady place.
And as he lived in our sauna, he used to take a shower every time somebody else took a shower. He also liked to drink from the floor.
I put little ping pong balls in his table so my Hermann’s can play. I also made sure his table was bigger than he really needs (5ftx8ft)and it has plenty of different grasses, plants, bridges and rock piles for him to climb over and break up his vision so the table feels larger plus it helps build muscle strength . 🐢🤗 im uk based too Hope this may help 🤞🏻🐢🤞🏻
great suggestions
I love that you spend enough time with every one of your animals to seek out their personalities, likes and dislikes. ❤️ I also love that you let us see them. It’s so cute to see them as individuals.
tortoises are like little dinosaurs!
Hilarious tortoise antics! I love waking up to a Kamp Kenan video!
I love the enclosures you build for your animals
Thanks for the update on Scotty's Greek Tortoise.
I would suggest feeding the tortoise more. Also, tortoises are attracted to bright colors, particularly orange, red yellow and green. The tortoises I work with (sulcatas) get fed from an orange bucket, and even though I put down delicious grasses for them right in front of their faces, if I don’t pull the bucket away and hide it, they will chase me down trying to bite at the bucket. Tortoises are definitely creatures of habit, check the color of the shoes you are wearing, or it might be wanting it’s favorite treat from you. Try giving it a foraging activity, Kenan’s idea of chasing a little red ball is a great idea, (just make sure the little guy can’t eat it) also do a scatter feeding in/outside its enclosure. Because tortoises are hind gut fermenters, they need to eat several times a day, think grazers such as horses. It’s incredible how much these little guys will eat. Great question.
Hey Jessica Bella. All Great Info! :)
well i dont agreed to being color related
Great suggestions Jessica! I just got a tortoise myself. I am still trying to figure things out. The place where I adopted was not able to tell me whether it was male or female.
I love this guys facility
We are in Australia and my hubby and I love your video's, they are teaching us so much. My Ron has fish and we love animals of all kinds, the fog didn't bother us as you said it couldn't be helped. Have a great day, keep doing what you do, we think it's amazing.
the last tortoise: hey where are you going push me to incluser
Hey kenan your an awesome guy helping animals that need help and for giving them a voice that they deserve animals have feelings to right
Hello kenan glad to see you're doin good brother keep up the good work!
Thanks for the video!
Scotty brought me to this channel so awesome to see his tortoise is doing well
"maniacs" 😂😂😂
Love your channel
Greetings from Germany ❤️🐢
Interesting video. It's actually Sunday afternoon here, about 4 years later.
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ik laughing so hard omfg "HA WOW!" 7:55
it almost sounds like he's talking about a dangerous raptor than a tortoise lol!!! ;D
Badass set up
love this video
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Cool vid kenan
Nice to see the little ones, crazy tortoises
The little high step the crazy girl does while trying to bite cracked me up!!!
Great videos
Hi kenan, I'm a subscriber with a hermans which is also a toe biter. This video was great for a few ideas of how to get him to chill out
Are toe biters fun??
Cute little tortoises🤗🤗🤗
My turtle is so loving and sweet. Never bites and comes to anyone with hands and food
Thanks for all the videos! I was wondering have you continued to walk slinky with the harness and how well is it going.
I love ur tortoise aggressive haha
Thank you for showing Scotty's Greek Tortoise that he gave you.
7:59 scream!! so nice !
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Hi love your videos
This was really neat! Poor tort so cute so angry lol im sure they have a reason we just cant see yet
The tortoises do seem to get along very well together though.
Kamp Kenan very interesting video and they are all very cute...I hope to own a tortoise or turtle one day I ❤ turtles of all kind...Down when I use to live in North Carolina every turtle I seen that had trouble across the road I would stop and help them.
Great video really enjoy watching them. Hey I’ve wanted a Sulcata Tortoise for a couple years now I live in the PNW. Is there any other tortoise you would suggest since it’s kinda cold here 8 months of the year?
Hi Kenan, I have a male Horsefield & wondered if I should get him a female? I love your channel & the work you do. X
Sick you are the best
Your awesome
I can’t get cactus where I am in Canada what are some other foods that can help with their beaks. Ps thanks for all the knowledge, I learn a lot from you and your channel.
Hi kenan have 2 Herman tortoises what type of feeding schedule do you recommend by the way I love your change and my dream is to be a herpetologist so I have watched and been subscribed for years so the and keep up the god work
Good video :)
That tourtise is mint haha
Kenan could you please tell my parents about tortoises in particulat the hermanni Boetgerrii. Just tell them about the animal and why they are great pets if you did all the research and try to convince my parents to let me get one. Thankyou😁😁
I love that tortoise that bites she’s so cute ❤
Always learning something new from ya Kenan, keep up the great work. Wish I was a teenager so I could have some. 8 ~ (
Hey kenan! Hope I’m not too late to ask, do you have any hatchling leopard tortoises or sulcatas hatchlings left? Thanks, I love your work.
Can you make a video how to get into all of that and turtels special
First of all if your tortoise walks along the walls of it's enclosure all the time then that's a sign that it's not happy with the situation. My greeks used to do the same thing when they were inside. Now they live outside in a big enclosure and they don't do it anymore. So get the tortoise outside and build a natural environment for it where it can be a tortoise. Don't interact with it all the time either. It shouldn't be focused on persons.
Right it looks very raggedy! Give them a proper home and better treats!! Also wash them. They look so dry! Smh!!!
so cute ♥
Yes very good video spot on about the possible reason for snapping , the problem I believe with many tortoise is they have bad eye sight some have been kept with the wrong light type on them or their sight deteriorates over time , sometimes they are hungry or just randy , since we lost one of ours we give the male an old boot or two , often he will hump the boots for a good hour before he is happy again ....thanks for interesting points .
One question .....
When introducing a new tortoise to an existing group shouldn't you keep them apart for several weeks and is this because of the risk of infection being brought in by the new tortoise ?
Many thanks
G
From London GB
Ps I have my one who lives in the house at night time but roams freely in the garden during the day .
The fox is a known predictor to watch out for and large birds that can swoop down and pick up a tortoise ....Rats all these things have to be thought of , also if you bait mice with poison the mice take the poison but in the time it takes to die the poison seems to make the mice attack and munch on anything so keep eyes sharp ....don't let them munch on the tortoise...
Aw, Don't worry about the fog Kenan, s*** happens and haters gonna hate cuz they have nothing better to do and they don't understand how the real world works. Love the vid by the way, always learning something here. 😁
I am looking for an availability list. I sent email few days ago please send if possible... thanks and love the show!
a red shoe on s string hanging just off the ground that he can push , twist, fight with helps greatly as stimulation and exercise otherwise he takes it all out on the female hurting or injuring her with constant contact, cornering, harassment. works really well the shoe on a 45 degree hanger or crane design. he plays with it for hours. made a huge difference with my male.
Turtle's are very inteligent and like the elephant, they never forget. They also have feelings and can feel happy, joy, sadness, anger, all the feelings we feel. If someone mistreated them, they WILL remember it and it takes time and patients to break them of that habit. I had a wild turtle that was injured from a car (old damage) to his back leg, he seemed mean, snaping all the time, me and my turtle baby broke him of it, tho I did tap him lightly on his shell and told him no and let him feel my emotions, I also called him by his name. He became very friendly after that, of course baby didn't like him snaping at me either.....lol. Just give him plenty of love and care. Just as we learn about other ppl, their personalities, watch and learn about a turtle and any other animal the same way. Hope this helps.
Can you make a video about how to make your tortoise active please
the fog cleared up after the second wipe so your all good
7:58 wahhhh!!!
The best tortoise ever 👍
Get some diving lens no fog drips and put it on the camera lens, could really save ya the headache and help the quality :)
I think its gotta come down to how you are raising them. I have 3 male Hermanns tortoise, and theyre all insane. I take them out of their houses and they chase me around faster than I knew they could even run, trying to bite my toes. It actually hurts a fair amount when they catch me by surprise, but ive got all ten toes rn so its not an issue haha
7:56 Im dying
Do you have a turtle vs tortoise video... do they live together or interact or cross breed
Mixed reptiles thats cool
How is big Al? What was the diagnosis for his jaw?
My Herman has tried to eat my toe when I let him loose in house one time but I think he was checking for food since I just took off my shoes and my feet stunk. but he isn't aggressive like he wants to hurt me . I do think he is some what territoral in his enclosure. Though ,I act like my hand is walking around and he tries to chase it away! I think it's a territorial thing with yours.I would put a few live like little tortoise figurines that are close to his size or bigger out when you let him out maybe he might think this is not his territory or maybe he will attach those instead. Good luck!
Mine is too
She's extreme cute 😊
I am from Sri Lanka.😀
I- i always thought that u had hair underneath ur hat :o
I would love to see the animals
I have a Russian tortoise that does the exact same thing. As soon as he's brought out he chases us with his mouth opening as he gets closer. We found it on a road a couple months ago and no one has posted missing so we have no background into to understand his behavior either.
He goes for toes and fingers but if we can distract him with food he usually stops and then eats. He will not try to bite bare skin like legs or arms, just toes or fingers that are small enough. I've seen him chow down a a worm on the sidewalk as well
How often /how my much do you feed sulcatas? Mine is about 6 years old
Hey kenan what's the best cheap and easiest tortoise to keep in the Philippines? And what's the best food?
So the greek turtles went to Caribbean island? Hell of adventure.
Besides a possible eye problem. Could your jaws tortoise have a little neuropathy problems because of the way he is walking while trying to bite? Or is it just because he's trying to bite and walk at the same time?
I think it may be some kind of feeding response. I got two black-breasted leaf turtles and they always chasing my hand whenever they are not totally full, little lunatics!
My mom was just given a Sulcata from an old couple who had him for years. They apparently found him on the beach when he was the size of a fully grown Russian. Now, he’s the size of your typica adult dessert tortoise. He’s so aggressive 🥺 and my moms little dog will fight with him!
I want to know what to do to get water monitors
WOW
Does anyone know if zoo med bulbs are compatible with exo terra lamps?
Hi I’m from uk and wanted some advice I’ve 2 Hermann’s tortoises Both nearly 2 years old, one has just started to nip the other, when they where quite happy together any ideas why ? There enclosure is quite big and they have lots of hides things to climb over food I just don’t know what up.
Hy,what type of cactus its aloud for greek tortoise?
So I have a 1 year old sulcata tortoise and how his shell I'd getting bumpy am I doing something wrong or is it natural?
What is the best tortoise for beginner?
God question! I'm hoping to get my first tortoise soon !!!!
Wait what Florida girl here winter is in 5 more months it's almost October when did you record this lol
I have the same problem but it’s with a turtle and they only try to but when I pick them up I can hand feed but I can’t pick it up what should I do to change the behavior, btw it only gets picked up when tank cleaning
Would the mean tort try and bite the rhino iguana??
I think it's a food response because my tortoise is lunging at my hand everytime I move it inside his enclosure 😂🤔🤷
To the person that asked the question.
Constant pacing of the tortoise table is common with indoor tortoises. It usually down to the heat light being too hot, and the complete lack of structure in the table. 4 x 2 is also too small for an adult male. if you increase the size, add plenty of structure like plants, rocks and wood and make sure that you have your heat lamp on a thermostat and you let it go off overnight you should be fine. UK house temps on averege is around 20 to 21 degrees. Thats fine for a tortoise overnight. You should look to get him outside pretty much permanently for the summer months.
The biter looks identical to mine - is she a Tunisian?
Should I worry about house and horse flies bugging my new tortoise? In my area there's been more flies in the late spring - early fall, and I'm a bit worried that they might disturb my new adult tortoises since this will be the first time they are outside for warmer weather, please let me me know what I could do to help
Funny dude