Saturday, April 17, 2010

We found a desert tortoise





After hiking in the red cliff desert reserve for three years now about 2-3x/week, we finally found a desert tortoise. It was fairly small about the size of Nathan's fist, I don't know if it was full grown or not. The kids loved playing with him. Annie tried feeding him some flowers. They especially liked touching his shell and watching hide inside it. We also found some old animal bones, looks like a big squirrel mandible.   -A

2 comments:

Diane said...

That is so cool! I think the jawbone looks a lot bigger than a squirrel.

Kirbell said...

Kate says (about the jawbone): Which kind of dinosaur is that part of?