Desert tortoise adoption successes
The Tortoise Group, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit have an adoption program for desert tortoises. This story is about Shelly and her new custodian Heidi.
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“I never had one, but I always wanted one because they were, you know, fascinating to me,” Hill said.
“She does like a figure 8 around my feet, and then she steps on my foot and looks at me like ‘I’m hungry’,” Foster said. “So, then I know it’s feeding time, but yeah, it’s funny, she’s got a personality…
Shelly easily won over the hearts of her custodians. Click the link to read this heartwarming story…
Lots of activity for N.E.S.T in the Blog section. Wins and losses in the Crime & Punishment section and tortoises rescued from flooding in the Miscellany section
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Crime & Punishment
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Education
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Blog
N.E.S.T #1 Excavation Results
N.E.S.T #41… a surprise nest emerges!
N.E.S.T #42 and #43
N.E.S.T #44 and another false crawl
Miscellany
Scottsdale Centrochelys sulcata rescued from rising flood waters: video
Who’s Who…
Johann Georg Wagler (1800 – 1832) was a German herpetologist. He was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and gave lectures in Zoology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot. Described Pelusios spp. etc.
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Photo from By Brenda M. Klinger/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times.
