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"Rip Van Winkle" tortoise ?

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Old story - can it be true ?

Can a tortoise Hibernate for 30 years ?!


 
Posted : 03/06/2022 10:38 am
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I very much doubt this story. I would have thought that it would have starved in that time.


 
Posted : 03/06/2022 1:19 pm
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Unlikely.


 
Posted : 03/06/2022 1:22 pm
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Nah, dehydration would have got it never mind starvation. We got one a few years ago that had been abandoned in a flat for a few weeks after some renters fled and sadly that didn't survive. ☹️


 
Posted : 03/06/2022 3:22 pm
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Reading the story they don't imply that it hibernated for 30 years, but that it might have survived eating larvae, etc. in the attic.


 
Posted : 04/06/2022 11:25 am
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I swear I've read this before somewhere, I've never had a tortoise, so the theory of it surviving eating termites might be plausible if there were enough of them... But rather dubious over a 30 year period.


 
Posted : 04/06/2022 2:33 pm

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