When water is available, such as after a rain, they drink water. Otherwise they depend on their food to provide needed moisture.
No, desert tortoises are diurnal.
Tortoises drink water.
yes a desert tortoises has a back bones.
Yes, ants do bite desert tortoises and baby desert tortoises are in the most danger. If you keep tortoises outside, it is important to make sure ants cannot get to them.
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Genius, all tortoises chew.
The desert tortoises has two species - Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus morafkai.
Except for a brief courtship and mating period, desert tortoises are solitary animals.
The desert tortoise is found primarily in the Sonoran Desert and Mojave Desert.
desert tortoises do take care of there babbies becaus any thing can eat them.
they get it from the rain -------------------------------------- Desert tortoises can go months or even years without physically drinking water. They can do this because they get abundant amounts of water from the desert plants that they eat. So even when there is a long drought, desert tortoises can easily find the water that they need to survive.
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