Animals

=High Desert Tortoise=

The High Desert Tortoise lives in the desert in the United States or in Zoos. The tortoise eats leaves, stems, flowers, seeds and grass. The tortoise can lay up to 4-10 eggs. The tortoise is a reptile. The Oregon High Desert Tortoise's predators the gila monster, snakes, ravens, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, domestic dogs and more. Because all of the heat they like to stay where it's between 79 & 93 degrease fare-height.

Nothing depends on the desert tortoise as soon as the tortoises eggs hatch there on there own. What the tortoise looks like is has a light color, and a tan color that shades the plates in his/her shell. And other darker colors that define the shell. The tortoise is very successful in the pet, or zoo world.

Source(s): @http://a-z-animals.com/animals/desert-tortoise/ @http://www.defenders.org/desert-tortoise/basic-facts

=**Badger**= The badger lives the high desert of Eastern Oregon. The badger likes to dig holes for its home. The hole is really big mostly for a big family. It looks like a big ground hog and a skunk. It has stripes like a skunk and also has sharp claws.The badger climbs trees fast but slower on the ground.

The badger depends on plants and animals to survive. The animals it likes to eat are rabbits, moles, and rats, especially their young. Scavengers and other meat eaters depend on the badger when dead to help keep populations under control. It is successful because it kills many animals like gophers, squirrels, moles, pika, prairie dogs, lizards, skunks, and mice to eat and stay alive.

Source(s): [] [] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Desert_(Oregon)#Flora_and_fauna] []