Or maybe the tortoise can’t mate with another tortoise who is laying on its back. The tortoise that was saved didn’t even bother to say thank you.
Probably because the other tortoise took his sweet time getting it done...
How do you know? Do you speak tortoise?
He probably said "OK buddy, thanks for the lift. I'll meet you down at the salad bar and the lettuce is on me."
Everything has ‘polarity’; but not everything is about ‘sex’ or the desire to sexually ‘mate’.
-JT
The rescuer was unusually interested in the backside of the rescue-ee afterwards, wasn’t he? Tortoise damsel in distress?