Hello all,
So, I was curious about this. I have a 10 month old cherry head so is very friendly (not shy at all, follows my hands, comes out of his hide nearly every time I am lingering near his enclosure for more than a moment.) I have also been target training him, to touch a red ball on a stick to receive mazuri diet. This was mostly persued out of curiosity on my part, bit it seems to be great enrichment for him.
I recently was away for 2 weeks, and my partner was taking care of our tortoise. He says that the tortoise does not come out to him, at least not nearly as much as when I am home. To prove his case, the moment I walk in the door and spend 5 minutes in the vacinity of his enclosure, my tort is out of his hide and propped up again the door, seemingly eager to see me. Besides the sounds of our voices, and faces, the only real difference is that I am the one offering the target training sessions, and I feed and soak him the majority of the time. I had assumed he was just responding to the presence of a generic human food god.
I was under the impression turtles and tortoises don't hear well, at least at higher frequencies that we generally use. Does anyone else have torts or turtles that seem to strongly favor certain people? If so, do you beleive it to be visual or auditory recognition?
Thanks!
-Hannah
So, I was curious about this. I have a 10 month old cherry head so is very friendly (not shy at all, follows my hands, comes out of his hide nearly every time I am lingering near his enclosure for more than a moment.) I have also been target training him, to touch a red ball on a stick to receive mazuri diet. This was mostly persued out of curiosity on my part, bit it seems to be great enrichment for him.
I recently was away for 2 weeks, and my partner was taking care of our tortoise. He says that the tortoise does not come out to him, at least not nearly as much as when I am home. To prove his case, the moment I walk in the door and spend 5 minutes in the vacinity of his enclosure, my tort is out of his hide and propped up again the door, seemingly eager to see me. Besides the sounds of our voices, and faces, the only real difference is that I am the one offering the target training sessions, and I feed and soak him the majority of the time. I had assumed he was just responding to the presence of a generic human food god.
I was under the impression turtles and tortoises don't hear well, at least at higher frequencies that we generally use. Does anyone else have torts or turtles that seem to strongly favor certain people? If so, do you beleive it to be visual or auditory recognition?
Thanks!
-Hannah