General Care Discussion :: Tortoise closes eyes when I'm around?

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Post Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:59 am   Tortoise closes eyes when I'm around?

Hi it's me again. This time it's about another tortoise. A larger female one, 8 inch, been there for 6.5 years. This question is pretty strange, but uh-

The question is she will usually close her eyes (and sleep) when she sees me, or when I'm petting her lightly. When I get her out of her tank and hold her, she would also fall asleep in my arms quite quickly. She likes to sleep quite a lot (compared to another tortoise), like you'd see her having naps in the afternoon for a few hours, then of course from 10pm to 6am, but she is the only tortoise that will sleep when I'm around or holding her. The other one just crawls away and ignores me. Everything else is normal. Is this supposed to be a good or bad thing?
rosaceae
 
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:09 pm   Re: Tortoise closes eyes when I'm around?

What species of tortoise is it? By "everything else is normal", are you referring to your setup or its behavior?
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