Female Agression in Testudo Hermanni Hermanni continued..

[GardenStateTortoise]

It was a temporary indoor nightime unit for when weather conditions are unfavorable outside. Please no "know it alls" on here, our animals are given incredible care and have been with us for close to a decade now. This behavior as I have said numerous times, is 100% normal especially when females are gravid and it has NOTHING to do with the size of the enclosure. Again, this is a TEMPORARY nightime unit. Thank you for looking :)

[TCM666]

That turtle pen is like a prison, and your prisoners are gettin' raped!

[salvolondon]

i had herman tortoises all my life ( i am from sicily) but i have never see a female doing that. Maybe its a rare case of hermafroditism?

[Csengike2]

lool

[PoppinCheese]

its not a male in every case!

if the place is too small for them or if there are too many, they "fight" like this aswell

[AbsolutPaw]

Mine does that too. So I thought it was a male. Now i can see that mine is a female. Thanks for the vdo

[R0flr0ck3t94]

Rape!!!!! All the others are like [-_-]

[THEn00b557]

Rape!

[ladysmi]

very strange

[umero1234]

my female is doing like that to the male i also have. thats so strange.

the female have also a `penis` coming out?

have you seen something similar?

[GardenStateTortoise]

if you're seeing a penis it is a male, not a female, can you send a photo?

[iceygecko]

their probably mating

[GardenStateTortoise]

no they are not, they are females, they are displaying agression, typical of these tortoises in certain conditions.

[ollythrughost]

it looked lyk it was attemting to ''mate'' the other tortoises.was she pregnant?coz the only time female tortoises do that is when they are about to lay eggs in the next 1 hour

[GardenStateTortoise]

These tortoises regardless if they are male or female will show agression towards each other whether they have eggs or not.

[jamie827]

is that a female?

[Laahustaja]

Hermanni

[hakugan]

Very interesting! Similar mounting behavior by females has been observed in rodents (mice, rabbits) to some degree and more recently scientists were able to create a female mouse that would aggressively mount others. The way the brain functions seems to be conserved between mammals and reptiles.

[dagavster]

rivviting XD

[OndraVanda]

Oh, what a nasty boy. Hope mine Hermanni is a lady...nice vid anyway.