DeanS said:Jacqui said:From a type of animal that we say does NOT stay around others of it's kind except to mate??? If these animals roamed in colonies then may be you could use this theory.Zamric said:Im sure its a learned action from its elders.
BUT...and that's a big but...what if these guys roamed in colonies prior to their numbers being decimated...too far-fetched?
I would think even now they would continue to be living in colonies then. Since they can not roam far, I would also think the colony idea would be bad, because they would destroy in a few short years the range they are on... over grazing it. Plus they will also not only eat plants down to the roots, but pull the roots out and eat them too.
Nothing is too far fetched. I happen to be one of those folks who do think tortoises are more sociable then we currently think.
Sooooo then why did the ones who were wild caught in the past and brought to America for instance, not show this behavior?