It fruit is a food source for the gopher tortoise.

Most of the water gopher tortoises consume comes from within the food they eat.

Therefore, conservation efforts focused on the gopher tortoise aid these species as well.

People have eaten gopher tortoises for thousands of years.

Gopher tortoises are rarely seen drinking from still water.

Real estate development and a decline in the gopher tortoise population threaten the mouse's future.

Gopher tortoises usually mate during the months of April and May.

Gopher tortoises can live more than 40 years.

Conserving these forests would provide the natural habitats gopher tortoises need.

Gopher tortoises are mainly herbivores that feed on low growing plant life.

Reduced gopher tortoise populations may also be a factor of the frog's demise.

Climate change poses another challenge for the Gopher tortoise through alteration of habitat.

Among the wildlife in the park are gopher tortoises, hummingbirds, and seabirds.

A colony of gopher tortoises required relocation when the parking lot was constructed.

Efforts are now under way to create habitat for use by gopher tortoises and scrub jays.

The area is also home to rare gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus).

The park also contains many animals, including the threatened gopher tortoise and the indigo snake.

Except during breeding season, gopher tortoises are solitary animals, inhabiting a small home range.

Gopher tortoises have been kept as pets, preventing them from reproducing in their local populations.

The threatened indigo snake and gopher tortoise also make their homes in this saw grass community.

Gopher tortoises are found in many areas, the burrows they dig making them a keystone species.

The sandy soil is home to the Gopher Tortoise.

Gopher tortoises are known as a keystone species.

The taking of gopher tortoises for sale or use as food or pets has also had a serious effect on some populations.

We spotted a gopher tortoise and a lethargic armadillo.

The area is also home to rare gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus).

Gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus)

They do not dig their own burrows, but rather use those dug by small rodents or Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus).

The Florida mouse has been called the gopher mouse because it shares the long, deep burrow of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).

The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a species of the Gopherus genus native to the southeastern United States.

This species appears to be in decline, almost certainly because the gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus is under threat: the moth relies on the tortoise in a unique way.

For most species this means the horns and hooves of ungulates but the North American C. vicinella feeds on the shells of the tortoise Gopherus polyphemus.

The cape is home to the Mangrove Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin rhizophorarum) and the Florida Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).

The mouse breeds throughout the year, and raises its two or three young per litter in the nesting chambers and passages it constructs in the burrow of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).

On November 9, 2009, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed rulemaking to include the Eastern Population of the Gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, in the List of Threatened Wildlife.