Aug 1, 2006
10:44 AM
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Desert fauna: chuckwalla

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The stout-bodied chuckwalla is the second largest lizard in the U.S., surpassed only by the gila monster. A male can weigh up to 2 pounds, and sometimes reaches 18 inches in total length. When disturbed, it crawls into a rock crevice and gulps air, thus wedging itself in a crack and making extraction by predators extremely difficult.

Funny. When I feel threatened, I do exactly the same thing.

How much walla would a chuckwalla chuck, if a chuckwalla could chuck walla?

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