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Gopher tortoises, like other tortoises of the genus Gopherus, are known for their digging ability. Gopher tortoises spend most of their time in long burrows (up to 80% of their time). [19] On average, these burrows are 15 feet (4.6 m) long and 6.5 feet (2.0 m) [13] deep, but can extend up to 48 feet (15 m) in length and 9.8 feet (3.0 m) deep. [14]
Gopherus is a genus of fossorial tortoises commonly referred to as gopher tortoises. The gopher tortoise is grouped with land tortoises that originated 60 million years ago, in North America. A genetic study has shown that their closest relatives are in the Asian genus Manouria. [1] The gopher tortoises live in the southern United States from ...
The Bolson tortoise was the first species proposed for this restoration effort. The tortoise is unique in that, unlike mammoths, sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths, it is not extinct. The Turner Endangered Species Fund, who re-introduced the tortoise to New Mexico, has made it clear that the restoration of the tortoise to the Southwest ...
Onthophagus polyphemi, known generally as the gopher tortoise onthophagus beetle or onthophagus tortoise commensal scarab, is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Subspecies
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.
Tu'i Malila, a radiated tortoise, died at the age of 188 in May 1966, at the time the oldest verified vertebrate. [109] This tortoise was hatched in 1777. Harriet, a Galápagos tortoise, died at the age of 175 in June 2006. [110] Timothy, a Greek tortoise, born in Turkey died at the age of 165 on 3 April 2004 in the UK. [111]
Some tortoises show negligible senescence. Negligible senescence is a term coined by biogerontologist Caleb Finch to denote organisms that do not exhibit evidence of biological aging (), such as measurable reductions in their reproductive capability, measurable functional decline, or rising death rates with age. [1]
Gopher tortoise; S. Sonoran Desert tortoise; T. Texas tortoise This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 05:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...