After twenty years of living in the desert, I think I've seen one or two desert tortoises in the wild. Today, I saw three.
Here's one of them:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/2421837909/" title="Desert Tortoise II by .: sandman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2421837909_8d6fdc5114.jpg" width="500" height="338" alt="Desert Tortoise II" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/2422647740/" title="Desert Tortoise by .: sandman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2422647740_53b16ae59e.jpg" width="500" height="338" alt="Desert Tortoise" /></a>