The tortoises, unsurprisingly, are not fleet of foot, traveling 10 to 12 miles over a few years.
By Olivia Dow Cronkite News SCOTTSDALE – Sonoran desert tortoises are built for the desert. With their short legs and tough shell, they slowly but skillfully traverse Arizona’s rocky terrain, and like goats, can get to places humans cannot. And in our increasingly dry and hot climate, they just might have lessons about survival.
People are also reading… The tortoises, unsurprisingly, are not fleet of foot, traveling 10 to 12 miles over a few years, Rubke said. The conservancy started the study in 2021, using telemetry devices that tracked the tortoises’ location once a week. This year, it added GPS units to collect location data every hour.
“That’s an area we are keeping a big eye on and we have a few tortoises that we’ve tracked in that area,” Dwyer said. “They do interact with humans on a frequent basis. These tortoises live a very long time, so they might have a typical route they usually go through and then all of a sudden there is construction there one year.”
“One of the cool things that we’ve seen with this study is we’ve seen a lot of juveniles lately, and also some tortoise eggs as well, which is a really good sign of a healthy tortoise population,” Dwyer said.
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