tortoise climbing

Hi my 4 year old Russian Tortoise has had a new enclosure (3 by 2 feet, he is 10 inches long) for about 4 months now.. He is a bit pampered and we let him roam in our balcony and home most of the times, so when he is in the enclosure he always wants to come out.. I noticed a few bugs...

I know margies love to climb and mine is an especially avid climber and tiny destructive bulldozer, but some days he repeatedly climbs a small log and slides off the side then immediately turns around and slides down the other side. I’ve watched him repeat this at least 10+ times before...

Hey guys. So I just recently got a red foot tort and she’s still a hatchling and I know they like to sleep a lot. When I take her out of her enclosure and lay her on me, she’s either in a very adventurous mood where she tries to crawl everywhere, or she crawls up into my hair on my shoulder. So...

I've posted a couple of times recently about how much my tortoise seems to want to climb over or up everything - his pot, the plants, even up the walls. It doesn't appear to be because he's trying to get out necessarily, and I have been partially reassured reading other people's similar...