Youtube-ness: What type of angry tortoise is this?

[muddled]

It made me laugh at first but I wonder what got this guy so mad. I'm assuming the speed was just a video edit but I've never seen a tortoise freak out like this regardless... what species is it anyway? Super curious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zawQbubbcns

 

[Meg90]

I think its a hermans. They have also obviously sped up the footage, the opposite of slowmo-ing it. He's not actually that fast.

 

[Shalon]

They probably have some kind of food out of the range of the camera that he is trying to get. Edna will come after food like that.

 

[dmmj]

looks like a hermanns but if you look at the video it looks like it is attacking the camera and not the person, maybe it thought it was another tortoise.

 

[muddled]

Lol, sometimes it even takes a while for my hatchlings to realize there's food in the plate so I haven't experienced tortoises following me for luchtime yet. It does look like it's trying to bite the camera though, I thought maybe it was a territorial thing... guess not

 

[samstar]

Thats really cute

 

[pyxistort]

It looks like an Angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata).

 

[Isa]

I hope Hermy will never be that mad at me or at my camera like that .

 

[Stephanie Logan]

I'll bet if Hermie was ever mad like that, you could soothe him with a soft word or a treat!

 

[Isa]

I'll bet if Hermie was ever mad like that, you could soothe him with a soft word or a treat!

You are right, a piece of mazuri and Hermy would probably stop trying attacking me or my camera and would ask for more mazuri of course