‘Gitmo’ in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered desert tortoises
The Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base houses vulnerable young desert tortoises until they're hardy enough to withstand ...
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Prepare for a surprisingly social and zippy pet when you adopt a desert tortoise
But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. What’s more ... set up a habitat that suits her needs in the Sonoran Desert. Most of her diet consists of our lawn, which she happily grazes on.
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CLIMATE MATTERS: Impacts on the Sonoran Desert Tortoise
Even though the population of the desert tortoise has exploded in recent years, most of those population gains have been in captivity tortoises which cannot be reintroduced to nature due to the ...
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'Gitmo' in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered desert tortoises
The Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site raises vulnerable tortoises on the vast Marine Corps base. “The desert tortoise ... The hatchlings are reared in captivity until they reach a ...
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'Gitmo' in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered desert tortoises
“The desert tortoise is considered a keystone species ... The hatchlings are reared in captivity until they reach a certain length — Twentynine Palms uses a threshold of 110 millimeters ...