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A thirty minute television program exploring the world of the Mojave Desert Tortoise. Witness a newborn tortoise hatching from its shell and male tortoises engaging in territorial battle. Follow scientists as they track tortoises across the desert. Learn about the many threats to tortoise survival. Watch as scientists use new technologies such as GPS and habitat modeling to sort out the factors causing tortoise decline and to help guide the effort to recover the species.
Tortoises have lived across this southwest landscape for thousand's of years. Their adaptation to its extreme harsh environment is amazing: surviving ground temperatures greater than 130 degress Fahrenheit and able to live a year, or even two, without water. But now, the desert tortoise is in danger of extinction.
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A New USGS documentary video exploring the world of the mojave desert tortoise
Introduced & discussed by USGS Ecologist Todd Esque & Ken Nussear, Wildlife Biologist
A New USGS documentary video exploring the world of the mojave desert tortoise
Introduced & discussed by USGS Ecologist Todd Esque & Ken Nussear, Wildlife Biologist
This video clip highlights the types of technology being used to research and study the movements of the desert tortoise and how they're using the habitat.
This video clip highlights the types of technology being used to research and study the movements of the desert tortoise and how they're using the habitat.
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"The Heat is On: Desert Tortoises and Survival" is a thirty minute television program exploring the world of the Mojave Desert Tortoise. It highlights the USGS research program on the Desert Tortoise and the role of that research in managing desert environments to allow the species to recover and escape the threat of extinction.
"The Heat is On: Desert Tortoises and Survival" is a thirty minute television program exploring the world of the Mojave Desert Tortoise. It highlights the USGS research program on the Desert Tortoise and the role of that research in managing desert environments to allow the species to recover and escape the threat of extinction.
A New USGS documentary video exploring the world of the mojave desert tortoise
Introduced & discussed by USGS Ecologist Todd Esque & Ken Nussear, Wildlife Biologist
A New USGS documentary video exploring the world of the mojave desert tortoise
Introduced & discussed by USGS Ecologist Todd Esque & Ken Nussear, Wildlife Biologist
This video clip highlights the types of technology being used to research and study the movements of the desert tortoise and how they're using the habitat.
This video clip highlights the types of technology being used to research and study the movements of the desert tortoise and how they're using the habitat.
Part 1 of 4
Part 2 of 4
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Part 4 of 4
"The Heat is On: Desert Tortoises and Survival" is a thirty minute television program exploring the world of the Mojave Desert Tortoise. It highlights the USGS research program on the Desert Tortoise and the role of that research in managing desert environments to allow the species to recover and escape the threat of extinction.
"The Heat is On: Desert Tortoises and Survival" is a thirty minute television program exploring the world of the Mojave Desert Tortoise. It highlights the USGS research program on the Desert Tortoise and the role of that research in managing desert environments to allow the species to recover and escape the threat of extinction.