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The torts have started the next step in their journey! 🐢 Recently, The Living Desert and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance moved the desert tortoise hatchlings to an outdoor rearing facility at the Edwards Air Force Base, where the hatchlings' eggs were originally laid. During the next six months, the tortoises will reacclimatize to the desert, as well as learn important predator avoidance behaviors and how to identify important foods. Then, this fall, the tortoises will be released back into the