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I should let some of my redfoot tortioses go at ocean reef.
A few years ago I saw a cat walking around my yard and late the next day I saw a group or torts in a circle so I went over to look and they were eating it.
I could not believe it and just imagined the cat coming close to a tort and the tort bitting its foot and holding on and the others slowly closing in for the kill like a group of lions killing a zebra except in ultra slow motion. It must have taken hours to "take it down". By the next night it was just bones.
Tortoises the new apex predators!!! LOL
Rob

LOL, That's what we need to do! That's hilarious!
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Todd Hughes

That was awesome!

That's too close to home to be funny. The reason I'm never without some form of reptile or another is because I imprinted on an adult pair of Gopherus agassizii as an infant. Somewhat like Romulus and Remus, I suppose. Those tortoises had free roam of our house. My earliest recollection is my older brother tormenting me with them. Of course, they thought I was something good to eat. They seemed larger than Aldabras at the time. Must have been somewhere around two years old.
I swear!
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

I'vee seen a show, years ago...I think it was the Okafango? swamp, in Africa where the doves would swoop down to the shallow edge of the pond, and bathe. The larger side-necked turtles would come up, grab them by the leg, and slowly back into deeper water, drowning them, then eating them. On a larger scale, not all of the explorers returned from the Galapagos Islands, right? Try budging a 400lb tortoise that has a grip on your ankle, while others come "racing" to the feast.

It's for good reason that U. of Md. has the slogan.."Fear the Turtle".