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These two redfoot sisters are ten years old. Check the top picture out below. These girls on the same day backed up to one another, dug their hole and laid their eggs. Later in that same laying season they did it a second time. This time a few feet from each other yet at the same time. Today Oct. 21st. 2008 they have done it a third time. Check the bottom picture out below. Now as we used to say in the sixties, "I'M STOKED". I have just one thought,this is Guiness Book type event. It's unbelievable but it happened not once, not twice but three times. Any ideas or thoughts on this? It's as wild as anything I have ever experienced with tortoises.

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

That really is amazing! And lucky for you, congratulations on long term care well done. Are they siblings? Sometime you hear stories about human twins having same time experiences...similar? Maybe they are just kept together with identical stimuli in all things...and they are predictable? Maybe you should start a betting pool for next season? congratulations,Vic H.

Thanks Vic, I do think their needs are being met based on each one laying 3 clutches each of the last two seasons. They are sisters and we often call them twins just based on their physical and behavioral characteristics. I got them in 1998 when I was a vendor at a major Expo. Probably the best trade I ever made. a pair of newborn boas for what the owner thought was a male and female redfoot. Thats when my luck started but it took several years to determine they were both girls. Later -Richard

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."