The Gopher Tortoise: Everything You Need To Know!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2023
- One of the most unique turtles in the U.S, in this episode of The Wild Report we encounter a wild gopher tortoise and learn what makes these reptiles so important!
If you enjoyed this video, please be sure to leave a like and share it with your friends. If you didn't, please leave a comment telling me what I could improve on. For more educational wildlife content, subscribe to my channel. New videos go up on Thursday mornings at 11 AM!
/ thewildreportofficial
Also, check out my social media pages for more wildlife information:
Instagram/Twitter: @thewildreport
I owe a big thanks to my top Patreon supporters:
Jason Lamoreux (Top Tier Supporter)
RupurtTheLlama
Will Mogtader
Ndrael
Patreon Link: patreon.com/thewildreport
Vlad Gluschenko - Forest
Promoted by Music-Library.net
If you've made it this far in the description, remember to be safe when creature adventuring! Most wild animals can cause injury if harassed, and I do not recommend attempting to capture any creatures without purpose and practice. The reason that I interact with wildlife is to produce these educational videos, and I have years of zoology experience under my belt. Also, I always ask permission from a land owner before exploring on their property, and you should do the same.
Keep adventuring everywhere, and keep your adventures safe at all times!
-Ben Zino
"How many are your works, Lord? In wisdom you made them all, the earth is full of your creatures."
Psalms 104:24
#turtle #wildlife #herpetology
That had to take A LOT of time, especially with the adult gopher. Another good informational video, you can see the effort put into this video.
Yeah this video took like 20 or so herping hours to produce, glad you enjoyed!
Hey y'all, sorry for the recent lapse of content! I'm actually traveling internationally right now so most of my free time has gone to planning trip details, but I'm cooking up new content as fast as I can while trying to keep my quality as high as possible for you. Thanks for your continual support!
Please see what you can do about getting someone to Relocate approx 20 Gopher Turtles from a soon to be Construction Site of Approximately 50 NEW RV Spots in Rosewood, FL... looks like there is NO plans in Removing them to a Safe place and will face the Heavy Machinery... please help in some way.
They are protected. It costs like 1 to 5 thousand dollars a piece to relocate. I would reach out to wildlife groups pronto to get involved...especially if there are twenty
.they may be able to oversee the project
Wow! another great video. I've seen this species before on a trip to Florida. Your message of conservation is very heartwarming, I always enjoy the clear appreciation and respect you have towards animals.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!
I so enjoy your videos. You get so excited about what you do that it makes your followers excited too! I have learned so much about snakes from you and have imparted that knowledge to others. Turtle, Tortoise? Had no idea they can move that fast. Always assumed that turtles live in water. A lot to learn! Thank you for your videos.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Glad that you've been enjoying my content!
Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your videos since back in the day when I found you searching for cottonmouth's in Honey Island Swamp... Louisiana. Be safe out there in the wild!
Thanks so much, appreciate the support!
Great video man, love them torts 👌
Thanks Zack!
Tortoise zoomies!!!!!!!
Yup they move surprisingly quickly!
Great video Ben thanks for the information. I know it will s challenging to get all those shots at times.
Thanks Steven, yeah these were trickier to film than I imagined!
I helped a turtle get to a safe place a few weeks ago. I didn't realize that it was a snapping turtle until I picked it up and it snapped at me. It scared me and I jumped. 😅😅 But I was glad that I was able to help it.
Oh man! Yeah they can be feisty but I'm glad you helped.
We are dealing with these tortoises now with some property in a preserve we bought to build a house. We have six acres and where we are going to build the house there two burrows. Since we have enough property we can take an online course and apply for a relocation permit from Florida and relocate them onsite. We will trap them at their current burrow, move them to the back of the property, fence them in an area and they will create a new burrow. Once they develop the new burrow we remove the fence and they live happily ever after. If you have a small piece or property you have to relocate them offsite, but since we have several acres we can keep them on property. You can easily co-exist with them as long as you don’t destroy their burrow. it’s very expensive to move them to a sanctuary, some charge as much as $5,000 per tortoise to accept them! It’s a shame it cost so much to relocate them, because that encourages people to just move them off property and dump them miles away, which puts them at high risk for death when they try to move back to their old home. I’m glade Florida is updating their laws, up until a few years ago land developers could simply pay a fee to the state and then pave over the active burrows without relocating the tortoises, despicable and disgusting and cruel!
I love tortoises!
So do I!
I think we have some here in the piney woods of east texas .. cass county
I helped one out of our parking lot at work a few weeks ago. It was wandering around the front of the apartments and I was afraid it may get run over so I took it to the nearby woods and let it go. It was super heavy.
How cool, glad you could help it get to safety!
Hey buddy after subbing to your channel and watching alot of your videos I noticed you're from NC, well my question is my mother is from Jacksonville if you're familiar but it's near camp Lejeune (biggest marine base) and I was just wondering are copperheads and water moccasins hard to find in that area of NC? And maybe what types of snake are most common If I were to go herping there. Thanks for any info buddy!
Hey dude! I've never er been to camp Lejune but have heard great things about the herping in that area. From what I understand there is a decent population of upland species there, but I'm sure you could also find moccasins in any creek system!
@@TheWildReportOfficial Wow very cool to know! Appreciate the info bud! I've never seen a Venomous snake in the wild so that is my goal! But of course being a novice I have no plans of interacting with it lol. Just going to observe of course! Thanks again
As long ago as the 60s the woods of South Mississippi were full of these creatures. But then people decided they were good to eat (turtle soup) and they became quite scarce. 😊❤
Oh no, hopefully they'll be able to be reintroduced at some point!
Gotta do a video on a wormsnake. Never knew there was such a thing until clearing our yard and came across it. I don't want snakes as a pet. But I won't kill them. I'll usually take some pics and look it up. Came across a wormsnake. Prob the only snake I've ever held and learned they never bite and eat earthworms. Just thought more people would like to know about those especially considering they don't bite.
I do have an older video about them, I think from 3ish years ago! They are super cute little noodles to be sure.
What are you talking about the Eastern boxing turtle? it barrows itself for the winter Hibernates by digging a hole under ground n they are smaller but can close there shell completely Eastern boxing turtles do burrow to Hibernate
They do bury themselves but don't construct burrows like the gopher tortoise.
@TheWildReportOfficial I understand Eastern boxing turtle is under a lot of pressure I was in the new jersey woods in Tuckerton ocean country n found a old foundation that was a pitfall for them when I jumped down into it I rescued 3 boxers sadly the next day I saw 1 that I rescued was dead 😢 after it got run over I felt somewhat responsible for getting them out I now live in Florida n been relocating ones I see in residential areas cause I've seen a few gophers dead that got run over its a sad thing but I had always up north tried to save as many Eastern boxing turtles I could I think habit lost is a big factor to there decline, both species when growing up in 80s they were everywhere but now they are not many in the woods its sad .I believe more people like yourself are doing good by bringing attention to the American tortoise 🐢 thanks keep up the great work 👍 🙏
How can you tell the tortoise is male? ("him"?)
You can use the shape of the plastron (bottom of the shell)! If they have a concave plastron it is a male, whereas females have flat plastrons.
Could not see it. Thank you!
@@josephtravers6721 Happy to help!
just almost saw one get ran over, I stopped , I ran to it's rescue I myself almost got ran over but it was worth it to me 💪🏾 to the guy in the black charger god got you homie 🤬 🖕
Glad you saved it!
don't say everything you need to know. ??? you have very interesting videos please don't click bate
EYKTK is just the series name for when I highlight an individual species in a video :)
Everything? You gave very little information.