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  2. This Woman Has Become True Besties With A Sonoran Desert ...

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    Savannah Antillon was one of the people who immediately knew she wanted to adopt one. The woman chose a 30-year-old female, ... Georgie was surrendered to the state with six other female tortoises.

  3. Desert tortoises are out of hibernation and need homes. Here ...

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    Arizona Game and Fish has more than 100 captive tortoises that need homes. Here's why and everything you need to know about applying to adopt one.

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    After years of living pet-free (save one vicious betta fish), my family and I decided to adopt a captive desert tortoise. When you adopt a desert tortoise, prepare for a surprisingly social and ...

  5. American Tortoise Rescue - Wikipedia

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    American Tortoise Rescue (ATR) is an animal rescue organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, adoption and protection of all tortoise and turtle species, and the protection of their environments. Located in Malibu, California, ATR is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. [1]

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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  9. Tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Adult male leopard tortoise, South Africa Tortoise laying eggs Young African sulcata tortoise. Most species of tortoises lay small clutch sizes, seldom exceeding 20 eggs, and many species have clutch sizes of only 1–2 eggs. Incubation is characteristically long in most species, the average incubation period are between 100 and 160.0 days.