Gopher Tortoise Biology Deep Dive!
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
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We're really excited to get to share this short we made in Georgia about the gopher tortoise. It's a conservation piece told in a way that we think relates to a lot more animals than just the gopher tortoise. Would love to hear what you think and if you have any questions about how we did different parts of the video or any questions about the topic, leave your comments below. A big thanks to the Jones Center at Ichauway for their expertise and help making this. Also, we wanted to thank Chewa Park for loaning us the Indigo snake. Even though these snakes are found in the area, they are very rare and not found at Ichauway currently. More on that in a future video!
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The gopher tortoise built my condo
~indigo snake
Forest Management is extremely important. ~Extremely~ Important. This is an Issue that many more absolutely must understand, all across America and the World.
very true. most people don't ever worry about the forests surrounding their subdivisions and cities. but most of those forests are full of fuel from decades of suppressed fire. Ontop of that many of those ecosystems themselves are very unhealthy and shaded out killing off diversity and the robustness of our forests.
Excellent video! If you ever have the opportunity, you should do a similar video on Mojave Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), which are listed as Threatened. Interestingly, fire is a big threat to these guys, whereas Gopherus polyphemus relies on it. Red brome, a type of invasive grass, has spread through many parts of the Mojave and is very combustible. Native desert plants don't recover from fires like plants in polyphemus habitat, so when red brome spreads fires, most of the tortoises' food sources disappear.
Oh my goodness! That'd be amazing. I'm doing a video on several of the invasive plants in the US next year!
@@UntamedScience oh yeah? That's awesome! I can't wait to find out which plants you'll be featuring. Some of these invasives can be really nasty... The red brome, for example, can even get caught in tortoises' mouths if they eat it, and cause terrible infections.
@@cacodaemonia I have a few in mind. I think they'd be specific to out here though. Cogon grass, Kudzu, Chinese Privet, Bradford pears to name a few.
@@UntamedScience I'm only familiar with kudzu; I'm eager to learn about the others! Good luck working on the video. :)
I live in northeast Florida on a small half acre lot in a subdivision. There is an adult gopher turtle on the property that was here when we purchased the house. There was two but one left two years ago after leaving us three babies. We covered their little holes when the winter temps dropped below mid forties. I am happy to report two of the three have still decided to stay with us. Not sure what happened to turtle number three. It is such a pleasure to look out the window and see a turtle munching on our grass and weeds. They are wild and do not tolerate us being out but fortunately seem to be predictable as to their eating time of day. Thank you for your video and care for these wonderful creatures. Rose
Thanks Rose.
thanks for saving my friend
I liv on a acre in west melbourne florida and have 5 adult gopher tortoises living on my property. There is over a dozen trapped in this isolated population and ive asked fwc to relocate some since we have way to many in a small area.
Other than stating being listed is bad u didn't say how it would be easier to save the threatened gopher tortoise without increased aid? Many counties in Florida and Georgia simply don't have the money to burn the vast acreage needed to bring major changes to the land aside from selected state and national parks. Further funding could go towards that. Where as less funding saves them how? I'm not saying we should just spend money on what ever. But funding in this case would be targeted at prescribed burning and saving countless species. Without that critter being listed we might not get the $needed more more areas to take action
Hmmm. I see I need to explain it a bit more. In many cases, we need species listed if they are very few left - no doubt. But at this stage it's different. Take this facility as an example. It wants to save the tortoise and saving the tortoise is all about getting as much fire on the landscape as possible. Good habitat means happy tortoises. If it was "listed" that means it'd be much more difficult to get fire on the landscape. It might increase the effort by 10 times. You'd have to map out every tortoise hole, make sure you didn't drive over it, and maybe even make sure fire didn't get to the tortoise hole. The point is, facilities like this really fear listing the tortoise because it would make it hard to have the resources to maintain the forest as it is. The effort is obviously very complicated though. I think that's why I found it hard to share the full story in a straightforward way. Great comment though!
@@UntamedScience thats really just politics and hoop jumping language in laws tho.. in reality we need more funding for more fires, plain and simple. But i understand what you are saying though. the current laws regarding being listed would overprotect the tortoise. here in florida we allready have to account for nests before we engage in prescribed burns. But the major problem as California has experienced is just the lack of funding to maintain the states forests and burn them. That funding has to come from somewhere and relatively quickly (10-20 years) if we want to continue to preserve our ecosystems and threatened species. So we have the solution as the ecologists pointed out in your video and we have had this information going on a few decades now really but no funding in sight. Thanks for replying back, enjoyed your video and will be sharing with my nonprofit. We closely work with these lil buddies trying to save our forest here in florida.
This is the video I remembered seeing Destins video
They are thriving In Gleason Park Indian Harbor Beach FL. They roam around munching grass. They are more common than squirrels.
I have a gopher tortoise. I’ve had him for about six years. I confirmed he’s a make and he’s about 13-15 years older. I found him crossing a major street. I built a habitat for him. I’ve tried donating him to a sanctuary but no luck. I love him but he would be happier at a sanctuary
Where do you live
It’s crazy I didn’t know that
So, is this video a biology deep dive about the tortoise, or the benefits of fire?
Interesting 🧐
That was prized meet back in the day in Florida I don't know how far it goes back but I'm 45 and the very old native Floridians would eat them. They were in their 70s when I was 10 so don't speak on this while you eat your burger. The old man's name was Charles and it was in deepest North Florida caryville he tried to get me to go catch em' for him lol!
1:01 You said turtles instead of tortoises. I bring this up because it's very important people don't mistake the two and, as has happened on many an occasion, bring the tortoises to lakes or the ocean, thinking they are turtles. Putting the tortoises in water kills them as they can't swim.
A small slip up but one that I thought necessary to address.
Tortoises are a type of turtle. The word Turtle encompasses Sea turtles, pond turtles, river turtles, brackish water turtles, and even land turtles.
This is why I am childfree.
More humans with even low consumption rates equals destruction of land and habitat and fire suppression.
Hey Haleigh! I'm a fan lol
I have a baby one and is the funniest thing ever literally a grandpa in a baby turtle shell
definitely i have some around my home stead i live in there native area