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10-09-2008 06:10 AM
Today 07:45 AM
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04-03-2006, 06:05 PM
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Field pic of Tortoise...
.. from today, a few miles from my house.
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That's an adult female Gopherus berlandieri, or Texas Tortoise.
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Have a great day.
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Gus.
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04-03-2006, 06:09 PM
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Wow that is cool, you come across more critters...The whole STATE of Texas is a reptile show...even outside!
Love the cacti too!  Great pic of the tortoise!! Makes me want to go outside 
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04-03-2006, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by amercnwmn
Wow that is cool, you come across more critters...The whole STATE of Texas is a reptile show...even outside!
Love the cacti too!  Great pic of the tortoise!! Makes me want to go outside 
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Here's a cactus flower pic from the same area today..
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The Opuntia cacti are a major part of the habitat in many places near here, without it many animals could not survive. Note that the flowers in the 1st photo are more orange.. it's all the same cacti. In this part of Texas the yellow and red-flowered examples are found.. plus the orange intergrades.
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04-03-2006, 07:32 PM
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That is just breathtaking! Texas really has some of the most beautiful plants and animals in the world.  I cant wait to move!
( I could go without the mesquite!! Although it is part of what makes Texas, Texas)
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04-03-2006, 07:57 PM
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Seems like nearly everything in texas either has fangs, stingers or thorns. It's some tough herping terrain lol. Even the grass bites!
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04-03-2006, 08:07 PM
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Very nice gus. Your camera really gets a workout doesn't it?
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04-03-2006, 08:32 PM
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Great pic, I love torts, I just did 2 tort reccues myself 
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04-03-2006, 08:37 PM
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Seems like nearly everything in texas either has fangs, stingers or thorns. It's some tough herping terrain lol. Even the grass bites!
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My kind of state 
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04-03-2006, 09:00 PM
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I am jealous Gus. All we have around ehre are garters, bull snakes, the occasional milk snake, and some turtles. You have everything there!!!! Chucks, torts, trants, rattlers, and about everything else a herp lover would dream of!!!!
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