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The desert tortoise is the official state reptile in California and Nevada. [6] The desert tortoise lives about 50 to 80 years; [7] it grows slowly and generally has a low reproductive rate. It spends most of its time in burrows, rock shelters, and pallets to regulate body temperature and reduce water loss.
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.
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.
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
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.
Gulf Coast box turtle, Terrapene carolina major (Agassiz, 1857) Terrapene carolina putnami O.P. Hay, 1906 (extinct) [4] Three-toed box turtle, Terrapene triunguis (Agassiz, 1857) Coahuilan box turtle, Terrapene coahuila Schmidt & Owens, 1944; Mexican box turtle, Terrapene mexicana (Gray, 1849) Spotted box turtle, Terrapene nelsoni Stejneger, 1925
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 ...
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 ...