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Stick your neck out and adopt a desert tortoise

More than 300 animals are available this year, mostly because people illegally breed them at home.
Thanos, a middle-aged Sonoran Desert tortoise, has struggled to find a new home. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now)

What has four scaly legs and spends 90% of its life underground? It could be your new pet.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s began last week with more than . That’s more orphaned tortoises than it’s ever had at this point in the season,

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