Natural History Wanderings

These slow-moving desert dwellers are actually plant-powered! Their diet consists of wildflowers, grasses, and desert plants, making them key players in the ecosystem by spreading seeds as they munch—nature’s true gardeners.

Though they move at their own leisurely pace, tortoises can roam over several acres, returning to the same burrows year after year. They may be slow, but they sure know how to get around!