With Arizona heating up, Sonoran desert tortoises are on the move just in their usual slow fashion. “When they come out, they need food and water, and they also start looking around for mates or ...

However, one uniquely Arizonan experience may not instantly come to mind: Adopting a Sonoran Desert tortoise. Since 1981, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has facilitated a program to allow ...

or Gopherus agassizii — are officially a different species from tortoises in Arizona and Mexico, previously called "the Sonoran population of desert tortoises" and newly dubbed Morafka's desert ...

The Mojave desert tortoise was once common throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of California, Nevada, and Arizona but declined by an estimated 90% in the last 20 years, according to the SDZWA.

Tortoises sleep through the winter ... it’s relatively easy to set up a habitat that suits her needs in the Sonoran Desert. Most of her diet consists of our lawn, which she happily grazes ...

PHOENIX — The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises. The tortoises are set to wake up from brumation ...

Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department need a forever home. AZGFD says the reptiles will soon wake up from brumation, which is similar to hibernation, and this is the ...

PHOENIX (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages ...

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