What dose a desert tortoise eat?

Answer 1

You're right, they do eat plants! Specifically, they eat grasses, leafy plants, and flowers.

Answer 2

A desert tortoise will thrive on a diet consisting of dandelion greens, mallow, clover, collard greens, grape leaves, mustard greens, and mulberry leaves. It's important to always make water available for your desert tortoise. Also, you will want to supplement this diet with phosphorous-free calcium powder. Remember to vary the diet as much as possible to ensure the best health for your pet. There are a number of web sites that provide information on the care and feeding of the desert tortoise. A couple of links are provided, but it is strongly advised that a Google search be done by any interested party. Use the search argument "desert tortoise" and then pick and choose among the hits. There will be a number of them. Please take good care of these little guys. Their numbers are declining, and they deserve respect. If one has a captive without a permit, there are some consequences, and the most serious ones are for the wild population.

Answer 3

Prickly pear fruit, beargrass, spurge, desert marigolds, many indigenous grasses (to their native range), along with many, many other plants. If you are asking this because you want a pet gopherus agassizzi, well, bad idea. They are illegal as pets for a very good reason- overcollection for pets. If you are caught with it, you can face thousands in fines. They make bad pets anyway. Just get a captive bred tortoise from a local reptile store.

Answer 4

Letuce, Strawberrys, tomatoes, even leaves from your back yard.

Answer 5

Herbs, grasses and wild flowers.

and fruit

Answer 6

They eat a lot of different kinds of food.

They can eat almost every kind of fruits and vegetables.

Answer 7

They eat cacti.