Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...
Tortoises are herbivores and eat native desert grasses, leafy plants and flowers. Wolf warns plants will get “mowed down” ...
“Tortoises can starve if too much of their diet is made of grass and not enough of their diet is made of wildflowers,” according to Hilborn. The organizations Defenders of Wildlife, the Desert ...