Grandson Isaac Dunson, visiting Gasparilla Gazette Nature Walk columnist William Dunson from his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, came across the unusual sight of a baby gopher tortoise crossing a Palm Island road. The yellowish head and neck indicate a tortoise in its first year.
Gopher tortoises this small spend most of their time foraging or hiding from predators in dense bushes. Their shell is still soft and they are a bite-sized morsel for dogs, raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, iguanas or anything able to grasp them in their mouths.
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Grandson Isaac Dunson, visiting Gasparilla Gazette Nature Walk columnist William Dunson from his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, came across the unusual sight of a baby gopher tortoise crossing a Palm Island road. The yellowish head and neck indicate a tortoise in its first year.
