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The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico , and to the Sinaloan thornscrub of northwestern Mexico. [ 4 ]
Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) drinking from roadway in Joshua Tree National Park The diet of tortoises contain excess salt, sodium, chloride, and potassium that must be purged from the body, and drinking free standing water, even if only once or a few times each year, is essential for this function and for tortoise survival.
Tortoises (/ ˈ t ɔːr t ə s. ɪ z / TOR-təs-iz) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats.
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.
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 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.
The Sonoran Desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai), or Morafka's desert tortoise, [3] [4] is a species of terrestrial chelonian reptile of the family Testudinidae ...
The California Fish and Game Commission on Thursday formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered.