Make love under a broad day light. So daring! (see pic)
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Then when wor! Hahaha...
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wonder it lasts how longgg
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I am also curious as to how long they will take to mate...
Anyone can provide the range or should we take a guess?
I believe it can take up to 10 hours? -
http://www.tortoise.freeservers.com/breeding.html
Tortoises in the wild usually have stronger mating urges during the spring, after hibernation, through until mid-summer. Although this is somewhat dependent on the animals' geographical location. In some parts of the Mediterranean coastline, tortoises can often be found mating at chance intervals throughout the year.
The mating process begins with the male tortoise picking up a female's scent trail and following it until he ultimately reaches his target. Then the courtship begins.
Courtship techniques vary from species to species, but ,the common denominating factor between all of the Mediterranean group is aggresion. Unlike alot of the animal kingdom where partners are effectionately wooed by attractive and colourful displays, female tortoises are literally bullied into submission through relentless ramming, biting and butting from their male counterparts. The type of aggressive behaviour demonstrated by these amorous males varies between differing species, from biting and strange head-bobbing rituals of the Testudo Horsfieldii, to considerable and often wound inflicting biting and shell-battering from Testudo Ibera. The sickening thuds generated by this forceful butting can be heard from several metres away. Eventually, the female, after enduring bites on all of her limbs, will stop attemping to escape and retract into her shell. This is the cue for the male to mount her.
Male tortoises, when defending a territory from another male, will resort to this "courtship" behaviour, even including "mounting", but in this situation the ramming and biting is effectively used to dominate and ward off the offending male. In captive situations this behaviour is often misinterperated by the tortoises' owners, wrongly assuming their males are trying to mate with each other !
Once the male has climbed onto the females back, it succeeds in keeping it's stance by a combination of balancing on it's rear legs and by posessing a more concave plastron than the female.This allows the the curvature of the female's humped carapace to sit nicely underneath him. After finely adjusting his positioning, the male shuffles and wiggles his cloaca (tail), until his "ventral- opening" lines up with the females "opening." The male then erects his penis (known as a hemi-penis). This pushes through his ventral opening of the cloaca and enters hers. Ejaculation is followed shortly after, simultaneously accompanied by high pitched "squeaking" from the male. This is the only time that one will ever hear vocalised sounds made by a tortoise (except for the occasional discontented "hiss".) Interestingly each individual species generates a sound which is unique to their own kind.
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Male tortoises, when defending a territory from another male, will resort to this "courtship" behaviour, even including "mounting", but in this situation the ramming and biting is effectively used to dominate and ward off the offending male. In captive situations this behaviour is often misinterperated by the tortoises' owners, wrongly assuming their males are trying to mate with each other !
very curious. does this apply to females too? my friend's tortises are female except for a male and they mount each other and shun the male when he tries to mount them. females don't have territorial behaviour, so how to explain their shunning of the male and mating with other females? -
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ha ha ha..
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...and some more so old already. Don't know got use viagra or not
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eh ? ... tortise can make noise one !??! ..... hmmmmmOriginally posted by bunny2002sg: -
can imagine like quite clumsy..
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lesbos tortises!!! but geese siong leh hai can have threesomesOriginally posted by HENG@:very curious. does this apply to females too? my friend's tortises are female except for a male and they mount each other and shun the male when he tries to mount them. females don't have territorial behaviour, so how to explain their shunning of the male and mating with other females? -
sounds more like raping than mating lol!!
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i saw snails having sex on discovery once.. wad the.. fags.
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what about porcupines or hedgehogs then ? ...
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i wonder they have how many positions?
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in case it's unheard of, homosexuality is not exclusive to humans. it's true!
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missionary position lorOriginally posted by Fatum:what about porcupines or hedgehogs then ? ... -
wah 3some! siong!Originally posted by The man who was death:lesbos tortises!!! but geese siong leh hai can have threesomes