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  2. Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Males tend to occupy deeper burrows than females. Seasonal trends in burrow use are influenced by desert tortoise sex and regional variation. Desert tortoise shelter sites are often associated with plant or rock cover. Desert tortoises often lay their eggs in nests dug in sufficiently deep soil at the entrance of burrows or under shrubs.

  3. Goode's thornscrub tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Gopherus evgoodei resides in threatened habitat and has a smaller distribution than G. agassizii or G. morafkai. [3] In 2018, the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group recommended a re-assessment and re-classification of all six Gopherus species.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Good news for desert tortoises: Stretch of Mojave Desert gets ...

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    A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

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

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    The desert tortoise is teetering on the brink of extinction. Can California's Endangered Species Act save it from oblivion? California's Mojave Desert tortoises move toward extinction.

  8. Gopherus - Wikipedia

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    The gopher tortoises live in the southern United States from California's Mojave Desert across to Florida, and in parts of northern Mexico. Gopher tortoises are so named because of some species' habit of digging large, deep burrows (gophers are small terrestrial burrowing rodents).

  9. Baby desert tortoises come to Living Desert for ‘head start ...

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    About 40 desert tortoise hatchlings are at The Living Desert as part of a conservation effort. After months of care, they'll return to the wild.

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