merritt-island-nwr-juvenile-gopher-tortoise

merritt_island_nwr_juvenile_gopher_tortoise
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A close-up of a small juvenile gopher tortoise as it crawls through scrub on Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge 

Author(s)
James Lyon
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Public Domain
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A baby tortoise perches in grass and looks at the camera.

The gopher tortoise is a large, (shell 15 to 37 centimeters or 5.9 to 14.6 inches long) dark-brown to grayish-black terrestrial turtle with elephantine hind feet, shovel-like forefeet, and a gular projection beneath the head on the yellowish, hingeless plastron or undershell (Ernst and Barbour...

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Kingdom
Animalia
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