Hi! My name is Hercule. I’m a Herman tortoise🐢
Ah tortoise tug of war. you’ll never win that one. Torties make the rope disappear! #Magic
This is why i love my baby, he’s either just plopped in his food bowl,
or he has just toppled over~
my lovely Flashy :3
The trouble these little ones can get into *shakes head* then they stand back up and demand more noms only to fall asleep mid-bite? Could you love anything more? Didn’t think so.
(Source: Buckingham Today .co.uk )
Thanks to twitter, this herman tortoise is back home after wandering out of his garden on sunday. According to the article, door to door canvassing was unable to find its owner. A post on twitter garnered much more response and reunited Neil, as his rescuers called him, with his owner. He spent his ‘vacation’ with PC Chris Russell who already had a pet tortoise and made sure to provide him with a few high quality meals.
(Source: Buckingham Today .co.uk )
Thanks to twitter, this herman tortoise is back home after wandering out of his garden on sunday. According to the article, door to door canvassing was unable to find its owner. A post on twitter garnered much more response and reunited Neil, as his rescuers called him, with his owner. He spent his ‘vacation’ with PC Chris Russell who already had a pet tortoise and made sure to provide him with a few high quality meals.
Soon to be seen on Jerry Springer…
Paternity tests for ‘promiscuous’ Hermann’s tortoise
Baby tortoises have been given paternity tests to find out whether sperm storage affects fertilisation.
Female Hermann’s tortoises mate with multiple partners and can store sperm inside their bodies for years.
Scientists found that in egg clutches with multiple fathers, mating order did not affect males’ fertilisation success.
Previous studies into similar species have found that a higher proportion of eggs are fertilised by the last mate.
“[This] ‘last in first out’ hypothesis was our main hypothesis,” said research team member Dr Sara Fratini from the University of Florence.
She explained that, according to the mechanics of a tube such as those found in the females’ reproductive system, the first substance to enter would be the last to come back out when emptied.
Soon to be seen on Jerry Springer…
Paternity tests for ‘promiscuous’ Hermann’s tortoise
Baby tortoises have been given paternity tests to find out whether sperm storage affects fertilisation.
Female Hermann’s tortoises mate with multiple partners and can store sperm inside their bodies for years.
Scientists found that in egg clutches with multiple fathers, mating order did not affect males’ fertilisation success.
Previous studies into similar species have found that a higher proportion of eggs are fertilised by the last mate.
“[This] ‘last in first out’ hypothesis was our main hypothesis,” said research team member Dr Sara Fratini from the University of Florence.
She explained that, according to the mechanics of a tube such as those found in the females’ reproductive system, the first substance to enter would be the last to come back out when emptied.
