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Tortoises being drawn to faces.

That is interesting. I see this in our T.c. triunguis box turtles, too.

Of the herps I've kept, I've noticed something similar -- this staring at human heads, rather than at hands or torsos or just past the ear -- in a green iguana, and some dart frogs (R. imitator and R vanzolinii, but not in D. leucomelas). I've not seen it in any snakes I've kept, but I'm under the impression that most snakes are pretty cognitively unsophisticated.
 
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