Assertion: gopher tortoise | /r/AtLocation | burrow
Facets:
value: below the surface of the earth
type: LOCATION
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: for long periods of time
type: TEMPORAL
value: underground
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The gopher is a small squirrel-like rodent which lives in burrows underground.
text: The gopher tortoise digs and lives in burrows, The burrows are their homes.
text: Equipped with strong digging forelimbs instead of flippers, they nest in burrows that vary from 3 to 52 feet long and 9 to 23 feet deep.
text: Typically, a gopher tortoise will sleep in a burrow that they dig.
text: The gopher tortoise stays in its burrow when temperatures are below 50 Fahrenheit (10 Celsius).
text: Rapidly moving brush fires have little effect on the tortoises if they are in their burrows, but the fire clears out the underbrush, opens the canopy and encourages the growth of vegetation that G. polyphemus depends on to survive.
text: I don’t know where you are located, but it is quite common for gopher tortoises to become less active and stay in their burrows for long periods of time during the cold times of the year.
text: Gophers are small, destructive animals that live in burrows below the surface of the earth.