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when we think of turtles we most often imagine a hard-shelled reptile hanging out in the water but in today's episode of the wild report we're trying to get up close and personal with a rare turtle that can't even swim let's head into the Longleaf Pine Forest and begin our search this is literally the cutest reptile I have ever seen in my entire life this is a baby gopher tortoise now gopher tortoises as you probably know are the largest terrestrial turtle in eastern North America and really the only tortoise that we have in this part of the country now adults you can see pretty regularly out on the skirts of their Burrows even in somewhat Urban or Suburban areas in Coastal Georgia and Florida but a baby this is an extremely rare find now gopher tortoises are considered a keystone species of the Longleaf Pine Savannah ecosystem because as we know this ecosystem is fire maintained in our gopher tortoises dig burrows sometimes up to 40 feet long that act as a fire refuge for a huge varie