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@TechnoCheese alsoWhat about the poor tortoise was “trouble”?
No tortoise could possibly be THAT bad.
Maybe the tortoise was POed because people kept trading him in making him mate all of the time?
They are smart ya know.
He might have felt used?
Poor booger. ☹️
My guess is that he kept overturning other tortoises and/or was aggressive toward humans. Bob lives in AZ and has a huge enclosure for the sulcatas and going into it to rescue/upright overturned ones could be a full time job with a male that large. And if the overturned ones are not found in timely fashion, they die in the sun rather quickly.
Also, when I kept sulcatas, my largest male (only around 100 lbs. by comparison to this one) was extremely unfriendly/aggressive toward humans. He would purposefully attempt to pin an arm or a leg against the side of his enclosure with great pressure and then move his body rapidly from side to side while digging his front marginal scutes into the trapped flesh. This resulted in some pretty significant cuts if one was not very careful when approaching this guy. His final trick if I was not near a side wall was to come up from behind me when I was unaware of his proximity and butt the back of my calf muscle with his shell. This didn't cause the same type of cuts as if the leg was pinned, but it was still annoying and disconcerting to be attacked from the rear unexpectedly.
So if this big male of Bob's had the same tendencies, I can see good reason to let it go elsewhere.