Well no land tortoises can swim but they love to go into luke warm baths and they run around and do their buissness
No, but they will wade through it. actualy a tourtise is a land animal. The ones that swim are called Turtles.
No, but they do like to walk through the sprinklers or get sprayed with a hose.
Try water. That shall do the trick.
yes
Russian tortoise was created in 1844.
Let them bang !
yes because the leopard gecko loves to climb on the Russian tortoise and the Russian tortoise won't even notice
Russian Tortoises can eat peas, i feed my Russian tortoise peas daily, although you can overfeed them very easily so i give my tortoise breakfast and dinner.
know way Hosea!
the desert
Hermann's tortoise
I don't think so. My Russian Tortoise has been alone for years and years and seems to be perfectly happy. I felt the same as you and brought home a female R.T. and he got very territorial and started to bite her. I think they can entertain themselves very well. :D.
Yes.
Yes they do
Testudo
Because they are from areas around russia. They are also called horsefields tortoises