To celebrate #WildTurtleWeek, take a moment to appreciate this important ecosystem engineer: the gopher tortoise! More than 350 different species have been documented using the burrows that gopher tortoises create. As you can see in this video, these range from mammals, like the imperiled Florida mouse, to amphibians, like the secretive gopher frog! Hundreds of invertebrates also use the burrows, and some species cannot persist without them. To help support gopher tortoise conservation, FWC rese
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Take a look inside a gopher tortoise burrow! Biologists discovered a tortoise deep inside this burrow at Branan Field WEA in northeast Florida during a survey in December. Gopher tortoise burrows average 15 feet in length and 6.5 feet deep. The standard methodology we use is Line Transect Distance Sampling (LTDS) with burrow scoping that allows biologists to count actual tortoises and not just the burrows. Historically, the FWC counted burrows and estimated two burrows per tortoise. The LTDS met
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We have tortoises! 🐢 🐢 🐢 We've had a long waiting list to adopt, but lots of tortoises found great homes and we've recently received many more! It's gonna be a beautiful weekend, so spend some time outside getting the burrow ready for your new best friend and then check out our NEW and easy online adoption form: http://bit.ly/TortoiseAdoptionGuide | Arizona Game & Fish Department
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✨Intern Highlight✨ Our animal care tech intern, Emily, helped out with a gopher tortoise release last week! By buildling a starter burrow for this young gopher tortoise, eventually this burrow could be 30 feet long! Thank you to our staff member and intern for getting this important keystone species back into the wild!🐢 #FloridaWildlifeHospital #gophertortoise #burrow #keystonespecies #wildliferelease #RescueRehabRelease #floridawildlife #florida #wildliferehab #KeepingWildlifeWild | Florida Wi
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