Move Over Punxsutawney Phil
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With the rest of the nation focused on whether a Pennsylvania groundhog sees his shadow, Las Vegas-area schoolchildren are beginning an annual watch for a desert tortoise named Mojave...
View ArticleMojave Max Predicts Spring Is Here
(Las Vegas, NV) — Since there aren’t any groundhogs around these parts, Clark County has adopted the desert tortoise as its prognosticator of spring. Like groundhogs, desert tortoises sleep through the...
View ArticleA Different Spring Prognosticator
( Las Vegas, NV ) While much of the eastern half of the country looks to the Ground Hog, Punxsutawney Phil, for a preview of the weather for the next six weeks, the southwestern U.S. has its own...
View ArticleMojave Max Wakes Up
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Local officials say a desert tortoise made an early emergence from his winter burrow in an enclosure at a federal preserve outside Las Vegas, signaling that spring weather has arrived...
View ArticleDesert Tortoise ‘Mojave Max’ Emerges From Slumber
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Local officials say they see a sign of spring in southern Nevada with the emergence of a desert tortoise from a winter form of hibernation in an enclosure at a federal preserve outside...
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