Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) {!--사막거북--> Captured from a WONDERFUL MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM title,
"Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature",
Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, 1995
THIS TORTOISE lives in the deserts of North America. It feeds on plants and, unlike other desert animals, is often active during the hottest part of the day. The desert tortoise has flattened front legs that it uses for digging long burrows. It usess these burrows as its winter quarters.
Dorling Kindersly Multimedia
(reviewed by Univ. of Texsas Library)
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~reviews/dkmm.html
For more images captured from the CD-ROM title,
http://bioinfo.kordic.re.kr/animal/APAsrch2.cgi?qt=DKMMNature-