Okay, I am considering the source of where I heard this. I was watching Jack Hanna. He was talking about and showing Galops. He said that tortoises shells are filled with millions of nerves running all through it and is very painful if injured, damaged, etc. Is this true? Is it the shell, like in top layer and all the way through, or is it more like a few layers under the outer layers?
I don't recall ever hearing this. Got me thinking of the shell rot we have seen from different members. Wouldn't that be terribly painful? Are the nerves lower/below the keratin? Could this be why some act like they hate to be scratched on their shell? Their nerves are too close to the surface? With the drilling of holes through the shells to tether a tortoise, like used to be done and in some places maybe still, wouldn't that be so cruel and painful? I never really thought that the shell had any feeling senses, but that they could feel through their shell.
Sorry, I guess I rambled a little and jammed a lot in. I must have not taken a breath
I don't recall ever hearing this. Got me thinking of the shell rot we have seen from different members. Wouldn't that be terribly painful? Are the nerves lower/below the keratin? Could this be why some act like they hate to be scratched on their shell? Their nerves are too close to the surface? With the drilling of holes through the shells to tether a tortoise, like used to be done and in some places maybe still, wouldn't that be so cruel and painful? I never really thought that the shell had any feeling senses, but that they could feel through their shell.
Sorry, I guess I rambled a little and jammed a lot in. I must have not taken a breath