Mojave Maxine is a Desert Tortoise living at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert
The animal brumates for several weeks each winter; schoolkids from three regional counties are invited to guess when she might finally emerge, which could be in late January or FebruaryON BURROWED TIME: It isn't often that an anticipated emergence is such a celebrated event. Certainly not in our own lives, for it is unlikely anyone is lingering outside our homes, ready to applaud us as we depart where we live and head out into the world to do the things we must do. True, the departure of major actors from various tony restaurants is often caught by a flurry of flashbulbs, but, for the most part, emerging from anywhere is a pretty ho-hum everyday act.
, the celebrated Desert Tortoise of Palm Desert, an animal sometimes billed as California's own Punxsutawney Phil.has been enjoying her snug brumation, which is a bit like hibernation, for several chilly weeks. But when the weather begins to warm up, The Living Desert resident will bid her brumating time farewell and trundle out of her burrow into the sunshine. No paparazzi flashbulbs capture this act, and natural ground, not a red carpet, greets her feet.
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