What do baby gopher tortoise's eat?

Question

I need to know what they eat..

Answer 1

You don't need to know because the Gopher Tortoise is a protected species. You are violating the law if you have captured one without permit.

The fact that you have to ask on yahoo answers means you shouldn't be messing with reptiles, especially a Gopher Tortoise. You can cause it to lose it's water stores and suffer dehydration by merely picking it up if it urinates. And Tortoises are sensitive to deadly respiratory infection if you don't know what you are doing.

Is it worth having yahoo turn your IP address over to law enforcement for interfering with a protected species?

If you have captured one, then turn it over to local wildlife officials or a tortoise conservation organization. It's chances of living to adulthood are nil with an inexperienced person.

http://www.gophertortoisecouncil.org/about.php

Answer 2

Baby Gopher Tortoise

Answer 3

Gopher tortoises eat primarily grasses (Spartina) and low growing 'bramble' fruits/legumes, as well as mushrooms and even bones and carrion on occasion. They are on the Endangered list (threatened) and it's unlawful to molest them, although I think its a good idea to get one out of the roadway or other imminent danger when encountered. Studies (from biologists) show that they don't suffer from incidental handling and urinating and hissing is a common reaction. Never move a Gopher tortoise more than a 100' or so from where it is encountered.
Source:
40 years Crotalid experience. Everglades.

Answer 4

What Do Gopher Turtles Eat

Answer 5

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What do baby gopher tortoise's eat?
I need to know what they eat..

Answer 6

Baby gopher tortoise food.

Answer 7

"Saved" it from what? Never mind what you should feed it, if you honestly saved it from something, it needs to go to someone licensed to keep it until it can be placed back into the wild... if you didn't "save" it from anything other than a perfectly happy healthy life in the wild where it belongs, it needs to go back exactly where it was found. (If this was on the side of, or in the middle of a road, take it back to the same area and put it a safe distance away from the road.)

Answer 8

Do you have one?
I believe that they're protected everywhere they occur.

Answer 9

Not only illegal to pick up or touch everywhere they occur, but also illegal to feed. Reptiles don't need their mother or you to take care of them, millions of years of evolution take care of that for them.

Answer 10

Grass,flowers and their favorite is prickly pear cactus.