The Old Blue Collar Joe
The supposedly endangered desert tortoise, however, has had 1000 of their number killed by the feds to control their numbers.
The cattle that everyone is howling about? Guess what the desert tortoise eats? Yep. Cow s**t. So...the cattle are actually beneficial to them.
Where did you get that nugget of information from? All I'm seeing is vegetation:
http://www.anapsid.org/tortdiet.html
http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/tortoise/diet.shtml
I don't even see "cow pats" listed on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_tortoise#Diet
Strongly appears that keeping cattle and tortoises in the same place means that these two herbivorous animals will be competing for land, food and water.
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