Desert+Tortoise

media type="custom" key="3680789" By Jordan S.

The Desert Tortoise is about 9-15 in. long. The color of the Desert Tortoise is a light brown and light black mixed. The Desert Tortoise lives in the state of California. Its habitat is the desert. It lives on a flat terrain. They live near sloped rocks to get away from the heat. Its diet conists of ephermal plants, green grass, and wild flowers. The Desert Tortoise reproduces eggs every year between May and June. After carefully building a suitable nest. The Desert Tortoise will have two to twelve pingpong ball sized eggs. The Desert Tortoise has a lifespan of 60-80 years. The Desert Tortoise is going extinct due to loss of them and habitat degradation. Individuals are being lost do to proaching, collection for pets, military acttivities, vehichular impact, livestock trampling, disease, and raven enroachment.