Four tortoises from the Appleton population were established at the Living Desert Museum in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
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In the fall of 2006, 26 Bolson Tortoises were translocated from the Audubon Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona to Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in south-central New Mexico, a Chihuahuan desert environment within the prehistoric range of this species.
Tortoise | Tortoise (band) | The Tortoise and the Hare | tortoise | Black Tortoise | Tortoise Matsumoto | Subspecies of Galápagos tortoise | Red-footed tortoise | Ploughshare Tortoise ''(Astrochelys yniphora)'' | Galapagos Tortoise | Tortoise | Galápagos tortoise | galápagos tortoise | El Bolsón |