Every animal needs to sleep including ourselves, think of it as a human not sleeping ever. Your crampy, moody, and most likely feeling sick, uneasy and rarely ever easy to get along with.
They can eat, sleep, walk, poop, and pee.
Desert tortoises spend 95% of their life in an underground burrow and sleep there.
Desert Tortoises go to sleep in the evening, and wake up in the morning, around 7:30 or so. I don't know if this is the same for adult Desert Tortoises, but my Desert Tortoise does this sleeping routine, and it is 6 days old.
The desert tortoise sleeps usually in a burrow.
Yes tortoises need at least one hide in there enclosure so if it gets to hot they can hide somewhere to cool down or even sleep
when tortoises come out of hibernation, they do not eat any differently. since they have been in such a deep sleep, they may have to get used to it again, but the do not eat any differently.
Baby tortoises can sleep anywhere from 18 to 24 hours when they're young. Their need for sleep diminishes slightly as they get older.
Well I do believe from what I have read so far on Turtles. In the colder months as food is in limited supplies. They go to a state of hibernation of sorts. They sleep more and eat less. But if they live in a climate that food is aplenty then they are wake more.
no tortoises are veryy exspensive
Tortoises drink water.
Turtles and Tortoises have highly similar DNA, as tortoises are a subgroup of turtles.
No, desert tortoises are diurnal.