Gopher Tortoise - What's Your Field Work Like?

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Tortoises are constantly being relocated in south florida. They have to be kept in pens for one or two years before they're released into the wild. People love turtles and dardles like sewers, says ash aman. Ologis community is getting a donation from the ologis community this week.

We're bringing back one shell of an episode with today's encore. What's a tortoise? What's a turtle? Why do they live so dang long? What's up with their junk? Wildlife biologist and testudinologist Amanda Hipps studies gopher tortoises and dishes about turtle nomenclature, cliques, dicks, behavior, burrows, evolution, habitats and more. If you don't dig tortoises yet, you're about to fall deep into a turtle tunnel in love with them.

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Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris & Jarrett Sleeper

Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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