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July 24, 2009 4:12 PM

Eight-year-old Skylar Knight (far left), Zoey Khan, 12, (center), Ellise Cooper, 10, (right) and six-year-old Dylan Alexander (far right), members of the Desert Discovery Center’s Junior Naturalist Program, feed bits of lettuce to Herbie, center’s oldest California desert tortoise on Friday.

On the last day of the Junior Naturalist Program, the students traveled to Zzyzx where they saw a herd of desert big horn sheep and petroglyphs. They came back to the Desert Discovery Center where live animals, including a king snake, rosy boa and tarantula, were on display.

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