(February 26, 2012)

Instead of flippers like a sea turtle, the gopher tortoise has chiseled looking front feet and it burrows.   They are important to our ecological landscape because they share their burrows or “digs”.  If disturbed, they would leave others species homeless. The Gopher Tortoise is on the Endangered Species List so you are unable to touch them or their homes. They get most of their water from the foodstuffs they eat.  The real tongue twister is that the gopher tortoise is a turtle as all tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises like a gopher tortoise.