gopher tortoises are just one of the many inhabitants of the upland ecosystem
No
No.
it lives in the wild
Gopher tortoises are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN. This is threatened, but not quite endangered.
An interesting fact about gopher tortoises is that these animals have front legs that are shovel-like and used for burrowing or digging. The burrow of a gopher tortoise can be 10 feet deep. This animal can live up to 60 years.
Gopher tortoises live in the southeastern United States, which is mostly warm temperate and subtropical pine forest.
about 15,000
Many!! No one can say that!!
They will use burrows dug by other animals, such as gopher tortoises.
because there aren't many left
you would find heps in austalia