How do desert tortoises survive the temperature extremes of southwestern deserts?

A) Stay underwater, using waterholes and rivers to cool down.
B) They sweat to cool down.
C) They spend much of their lives underground in burrows.
D) They pack cooling mud on and within their shells.


C

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