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Eating plants
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Small individual found in desert dry wash near Kelso dunes
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Female found in burrow at the Desert tortoise nature center in the Mojave desert
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Small desert tortoise with a carapace SVL of about six inches found walking in a shaded sandy area in the Kelso Sand Dunes.
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Herpetofaunal inventory of the Old Woman Mountains, UCLA Field Biology Course
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Species found in the open moving very slowly. Desert habitat shrouded with creosote bushes. Multiple burrows nearby.
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Species found in the open moving very slowly. Desert habitat shrouded with creosote bushes. Multiple burrows nearby.
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Species found in the open moving very slowly. Desert habitat shrouded with creosote bushes. Multiple burrows nearby.
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Herpetofaunal inventory of the Old Woman Mountains, UCLA Field Biology Course
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Herpetofaunal inventory of the Old Woman Mountains, UCLA Field Biology Course
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Herpetofaunal inventory of the Old Woman Mountains, UCLA Field Biology Course
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Found huddled in the back of a burrow, hard to see because it was far back in the shady section of the burrow. It was hard to get a good picture but when you zoom in you can see the tortoises feet.
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Spotted at the Kelso Dunes underneath a Creosote bush in the shade. Had green all around its mouth from eating the leaves.
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Female in burrow
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Desert Tortoise in its burrow. Photographed by Kathy Watson (photo used here with permission)
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Found walking slowly through the shade of the brush.
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Some elderly tortoise at the nature reserve ambling to the greener side of the lawn to feed.
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Some elderly tortoise at the nature reserve ambling to the greener side of the lawn to feed.
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