[Burke]

The Super's son saw a rock moving out in the desert and investigated, it's a African Tortoise, These are around the Sonoran Desert now because some guy let a bunch loose, so that little eco-niche is now filled. We were excited when we first saw it because Desert Tortoises are rare and grow to be freakin huge, they used to have one at our local zoo and kids could ride it..poor guy got beat up alot i'm sure.
This guy was given water and bread was released back out into the desert.

[Dookiebutt]

I found one of those in the Cleveland Metroparks once. Our zoo wouldn't take him. A buddy kept it, but it died over the winter.

[SwedeSteve]

Thanks for the pics !!

[Seabeescotty]

We had a desert tortoise for a pet, when I was a kid in Arizona. It was neater than having a dog! We'd put it on a leash, and take it for walks, and get the funniest looks from the folks going thru town on the old highway. They must have thought it was a weird little town, 'cause most of them wouls speed up, and get on down the road!! LOL! That was the old Buckeye, Az. I hear it's a suburb of Phoenix, since the invasion from Kalifornica got under way.

[cheapblaster]

Cool find!

But when I read the title to your thread for some reason I immediately thought of some of my co-workers!

[Palladin8]

good thing no one ran that over. On one of our projects here in Las Vegas several years back one was ran over in a gravel pit and the pit was shut down for three months so the tree huggers could look for more. The change order was several hundred thousand dollars to haul material from another pit for those three months.

[Tigercat200]

Mnay years ago I did a lot of construction quality control in downtown Chicago. We dug up parts of steel wheels, wood, and even bones. Every time we found a bone the superintendent would say "That's a cow bone" and throw it in the truck. We never stopped. Times change and not always for the better.

[sea_chicken1]

I like turtles....

[big shrek]

Quote:       Originally Posted by sea_chicken1

I like turtles....

Yeah, they make good soup

[thicket]

whats the downside? that thing is big and it's eating something.



local volunteer fire dept sold turtle soup recently, and it was good. they called it Famous Soup or something like that.

[petrol]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Tigercat200

Mnay years ago I did a lot of construction quality control in downtown Chicago. We dug up parts of steel wheels, wood, and even bones. Every time we found a bone the superintendent would say "That's a cow bone" and throw it in the truck. We never stopped. Times change and not always for the better.

does that mean you guys found jimmy hoffa?