| The goal is to conserve gopher tortoises by managing a conservation site of relocated tortoises and residents as a single viable population. |
| Darwin also learned that locals could tell from which islands giant tortoises had come by the shapes of the reptiles' shells. |
| But the related species of one extinct group, the glyptodonts, had a single-piece carapace similar to that of tortoises. |
| Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own. |
| In the southeastern US, organized rattlesnake hunts destroy gopher tortoise burrows and lead to the deaths of tortoises. |
| They are home to sea lions, penguins, flamingos, iguanas, giant tortoises, and many other animals. |
