Research Paper On Gopher Tortoises

In this experiment gopher tortoises were observed at the FAU preserve and data of the turtles, the mating, and their predators were put into a chart. I used the chart to come up with a hypothesis, prediction, and the independent variable and dependent variable. There were 2 types of areas that the tortoises were observed in 24 hours of the day with 10 different cameras set up. There was the dense vegetation which has an abundance of shrubbery and there was the grassland which consists mostly of short grass. Gopher tortoises usually mate up north during the months of May through June, but because I live in South Florida and the tortoises I observed were in South Florida their mating patterns are year round thus, the chart shows mating of tortoises