Tortoise

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Tortoise





The desert tortoise can live without having to drink any water.
It extracts the water it needs from the vegetation it eats.

The main difference between the tortoise and the turtle

Turtles are physically structured both in shells and legs, for swimming.




The tortoise, with a higher domed carapace (back shell), is not
designed to swim, simply because it evolved where there was no
water. Instead, it has powerful hind legs that the female uses
for digging her nest, and flat front legs, which are used by
both sexes to dig burrows, which is where they spend up to 95%
of their time.

The desert tortoise can live in an environment that reaches
140F, only because of their hiding underground, where it's
cooler.

What do they do for water?

When there is rain, they drink. However, adults can live a year or more, without actually taking water in all by itself. Most of their dietary
moisture is obtained through young green plants and flowers that
bloom in Spring.


- shell: ترس السلحفاة
- doomed carapace: تكوين عظمي علي شكل قبة 
- bloom: تزدهر
- burrows: حفر في الأرض
- evolved  : تطور



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