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  2. African spurred tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa. It is the largest mainland species of tortoise in Africa, and the third-largest in the world, after the Galapagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise.

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    Image credits: Savannah Antillon Savannah and her husband live in a beautiful pink house. Their yard is full of amazing native plants and cacti, but the woman wanted to find a way for her tortoise ...

  4. Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    These tortoises may attain a length of 25 to 36 cm (10 to 14 in), [12] with males being slightly larger than females. A male tortoise has a longer gular horn than a female, his plastron (lower shell) is concave compared to a female tortoise. Males have larger tails than females do.

  5. Gopherus - Wikipedia

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    Gopher tortoises usually mate during April and May. The female will then choose either a sunny spot nearby or a sandy mound in front of her burrow to lay between 3 and 15 eggs. The eggs then hatch from 70 to 100 days later. Once hatched, the baby tortoises spend most of their time in their mother's burrow until they learn to dig their own burrow.

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    In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. ... Female tortoises can store sperm for years and save it for when the ...

  7. California's Mojave Desert tortoises move toward extinction ...

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  8. Sonoran Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    the Mojave or Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii); known primarily from the California counties of Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. [5] Its range continues northeast of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert through the Nevada counties of Clark , Esmeralda , Lincoln and Nye , as well as Mohave ...

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