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The Desert Speaks
On the Trail of a Living Fossil
Season 16
Episode 1604
In an effort to discover more about the desert tortoise, host David Yetman treks from the dry deserts of Utah to the tropics of Northwestern Mexico in search of these special animals. In the Mojave Desert, Yetman observes how tortoises are tracked using telemetry. He also visits some of the homes in that have benefited from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Desert Tortoise adoption program.
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San Ignacio Lagoon is the home to the peninsula’s most famous visitors—the Gray Whales.
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