Desert Tortoise

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Desert Tortoise
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Tortoise Diet
The Desert tortoise is an herbivore. Grasses form the bulk of its diet, but it also eats a wide variety of herbs, annual wildflowers, some shrubs, and new growth of cactuses, as well as their fruit and flowers.

Since droughts are common in the deserts that the tortoise inhabit, they rely on the erratic years of good rainfall and the ensuing growth of palatable foods.

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