Gopher tortoise
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The gopher tortoise is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to the Southeastern United States. The gopher tortoise is seen as a keystone species because it digs burr
Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus, Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park, Lake Placid, Florida 31527638716
Carapaces of hatchlings are yellow, but they take on a darker color as they mature.
Bleached shell of dead gopher tortoise
Gus, the oldest known gopher tortoise, lives at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. (August 2019)
Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern, South Atlantic, and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina and South Carolina to the northeast, the Atla
Gopher tortoise
…gopher tortoise is placed in the genus Gopherus, which contains the only tortoises native to North America. The gopher tortoise is the state reptile of Georgia and the state tortoise of Florida. Tortoises of the genus Gopherus are so named because of some species' habit of digging large, deep burrows like those…
Cotton slaves in Georgia, c. 1850
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864
A so-called "Colored" waiting room sign in 1943 at a bus terminal in Rome, Georgia, where Jim Crow laws created "de jure" legally required segregation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s tomb at Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta