{"id":2832,"date":"2026-06-10T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:29:05","slug":"sonoran-desert-tortoise-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/testudindae\/sonoran-desert-tortoise-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoran Desert Tortoise in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/testudindae\/gopherus\/morafkai\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"323\">Sonoran Desert Tortoise<\/a> making its way around to munch on green grasses and spring blossoms in central Arizona. These animals can live a long time, and can be found year after year using the same locations and burrows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They don&#8217;t do well with development, though. When those important sites disappear, they die out. In places where they were once abundant, even outside of the developed areas, they quickly become extirpated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gopherus-morafkai-_6268-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sonoran Desert Tortoise making its way around to munch on green grasses and spring blossoms in central Arizona. These animals can live a long time, and can be found year after year using the same locations and burrows. They don&#8217;t do well with development, though. When those important sites disappear, they die out. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322,323,321],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gopherus","category-morafkai","category-testudindae","tag-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}