Unlike true hibernation, which is seen in warm-blooded ... Navarrette further noted that depriving bromating turtle species of this critical phase can lead to increased susceptibility to illnesses ...

Now, though, a tortoise in the UK has had its speed increased in a rather different way. After a rat chewed off her front legs while she was hibernating, Mrs. T, a roughly 90-year-old tortoise ...

A tortoise sanctuary has said it has received hundreds of phone calls from owners concerned local lockdowns will affect their pets' hibernation. Each winter about 200 tortoises hibernate at The ...

MIGRATION: The desert tortoise is nonmigratory. BREEDING: Breeding may occur any time after March, when tortoises emerge from hibernation, until the beginning of hibernation in October, but most ...