Adult female, Riverside County, in typical large granite outcrop habitat. © Patrick WardThis telephoto enlargement shows a Granite Spiny Lizard using it's large sticky tongue to eat something crawling on a rock in San Diego CountyAdult male in territorial display, ...
These lizards are egg-laying creatures that mate on a yearly or bi-yearly basis. The Ophisaurus mating season typically occurs in May, although this may vary based on the speed at which warm weather arrives. After mating, female lizards carry their eggs for one to two months; the clutch of...
brown... If you think the dragon has an infection, or if he hasn't eaten for close to a week then you should definitely take him to a reptile vet ASAP. If the dragon has a swollen leg or arm, is limping or protecting an area of it's body it could be injured and or have a ...
(viviparity) is that shells never form around the “eggs.” The female retains them inside the oviduct until development is complete, and each egg already contains all of theenergynecessary for development in its largeyolk. In these cases, no additionalnutrientspass from the mother to the ...
Overall, 31 lizards were captured (ratio male:female = 1.3), with a mean weight of 7.75 ± 2.18 g and a mean length (SVL) of 8.90 ± 0.51 cm. The mean values of biochemical responses analyzed in tails and serum (minimal invasive method) or liver and brain (invasive method) of lizards...
(2) the focal stimulus experiments with same-sex interaction are similar between them regardless the experimental setup (2016 experiments vs. 2017 experiments), and of the sex of the focal lizard (female–female and male–male) (Figure 2). The duration of each interaction varied depending on ...