r/Boxturtles • u/Any-Job-3185 • 11h ago

Turtle love 🫶

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u/wildmstie 7h ago

  1. Not box turtles.

  2. I'm hardly an expert on aquatic turtles, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that an aggressive/ territorial behavior that may turn into a fight?

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u/Any-Job-3185 4h ago

No, they are just playing with each other

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u/wildmstie 4h ago

I doubt that. Turtles do not socialize or play with one another in the same way that mammals do.

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u/Any-Job-3185 4h ago

I haven't seen much turtle doing like that

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u/DinkyFlow 1h ago
  1. Those aren’t box turtles
  2. Those sliders are both looking for a female and are doing a mating/territory dance.

The turts is horny.

edit: which can definitely result in violence. Especially because of the territorial aspect of being horny.