If you can take care of big responsibility, no. If you cannot, then yes it is.
The tortoise's shell is their home. The shell has a hard cover and can protect them when something hard hits it. If they do not have the shell, they would have died fast.
a hard shell to protect it from enemies
it has a hard shell to protect it from preditors
it has a soft shell
hard. you can stand on some types of fully grown species.
Unfortunately, it is a myth that turtles and tortoises can leave or change their shells. The shell is actually a hard, protective covering over the turtle or tortoise's ribs. So if you find an empty tortoise shell that means that that tortoise has died and decomposed.
None. They have a hard beak that they use to eat with.
tortiose
As long as you create a proper habitat for your red footed tortoise to live in, keeping it indoors for the first few years shouldn't be a problem. They can live to be 50 years old.
The upper shell is called the dorsal carapace.
The slow-crawling, hard-shelled animal is a turtle (some also tortoise).
Stick your finger in your belly button and smell it and think really hard.