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2. Lost tortoise in Texas travels 50 miles, spurs frantic four ...

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   Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, slipped out of his Hood County, Texas, enclosure a week before Thanksgiving and made his way to Hico, Texas. Here’s how he found his way home.

3. Texas tortoise - Wikipedia

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   The Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species G. berlandieri is one of six species of tortoises that are native to North America. Geographic range

4. List of reptiles of Texas - Wikipedia

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   This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.

5. Goode's thornscrub tortoise - Wikipedia

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   Edwards et al. sampled 233 tortoises that represented Sonoran and Sinaloan lineages of G. morafkai. [6] The authors then conducted a large-scale genetic analysis that when combined with significant ecological and morphological differentiation, suggested that the southernmost Gopherus "Sinaloan" population constituted a newly described species ...

6. Dallas Zoo - Wikipedia

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   Dallas Zoo (also called the Dallas Zoological Park) is a 106-acre (43 ha) zoo located 3 mi (5 km) south of downtown Dallas, Texas, in Marsalis Park. Established in 1888, it is the oldest and largest zoological park in Texas [ 1 ] and is managed by the non-profit Dallas Zoological Society.

7. Gopherus - Wikipedia

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   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]

8. Dallas World Aquarium - Wikipedia

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   The Dallas World Aquarium is a for-profit aquarium and zoo located in the West End Historic District of Dallas, Texas, USA. [4] It aids conservation and education by housing many animals that are threatened or endangered as part of a cooperative breeding program with other zoos around the world.

9. Spider tortoise - Wikipedia

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   Very little is known about the life cycle of this endangered tortoise, which is believed to live for up to 70 years. [5] Here they feed on young leaves, insect larvae, and even the droppings of larger animals. When the wet season arrives, the dormancy period ends and the tortoises begin to mate.