Sentences with phrase «small lizard»

I think the funniest creature that has snuck into our house was a small lizard.

The small lizard seen all over the Caye is an anole (Anolis sagrei).

I was also lucky to see a small lizard scuttling amongst the wildflowers.

Losos and his team studied Anolis sagrei — a common small lizard that has a signature throat flare, reproduces quickly and tends to live on the ground in the absence of predators.

First of all, different species of these small lizards can interbreed.

This toxin may have evolved in black widows because they are big enough to build webs capable of ensnaring small lizards and other prey with backbones, Garb suggests.

Archerfish hunt by shooting jets of water at unsuspecting insects, spiders, or even small lizards on leaves or twigs above, knocking them into the water below before gobbling them up.

According to the study, turkeys fattened up on an all - grain diet were found to have brains that had failed to grow normally: The all - grain turkey brains weighed in at slightly over two - thirds the weight of the brains of turkeys in the wild — turkeys with full access to the bugs, worms, and small lizards typical of a turkey's natural omnivorous diet.

Smaller lizards, such as geckos, may be housed in well - ventilated aquariums protected by screens on top, so that other predatory pets, such as cats and dogs, don't have access to them.

And despite the image that comes to mind because of their fearsome name, bearded dragons are relatively small lizards that enjoy munching on vegetables along with their staple cricket diet.

With small lizards, I recommend gently but firmly cradling the lizard in one's hand.

Being rear - fanged, they would need to chew on you for a while to deliver any venom, and as the venom is designed to subdue small lizards, it is mild.

We were amazed and facsinated to watch the small lizards basking in the sunshine on the rocks and even more amazed to see big iguanas lazing around all over the place, in car parks, under cars, in bushes.

They will feed on a diverse diet of insects, small lizards, snakes, and birds.

In fact, the smaller the lizard, the higher the peak acceleration, relative power, and distance of tongue extension were relative to body size.

Advertisements with tricky fisherman, small lizards, and that guy on a roof bombard you all day long.

Not exact matches

Thousands of dogs, cats, birds, lizards and man - eating Iguanas are being given away, or let go for a small donation.

Yet, perhaps the most potentially repulsive, at least for Western tastes, of grilled meats are found in small poor villages in rural areas: snakes grilled whole, and, on a more intense level, monitor lizards (there are six feet - long lizards, thick as an arm) which are skinned and grilled.

Great toddler activities at the creek include wading in the water, picking up rocks and other things in the creek, watching tadpoles and other small fish, looking for newts and lizards, throwing rocks into the water.

When visiting ponds, rivers, dams and lakes, keep an eye out for frogs, lizards and other small reptiles.

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Oliver attributed most of those differences to Southern heat: To avoid it, scapularis nymphs hide out under leaf litter, biting lizards and small mammals instead of questing for larger prey on tall grass or brush.

The Penn State research team that found the snake has also identified the world's smallest frog and lizard.

2017 revealed some surprising biology of organisms large and small, from quick - dozing elephants to sex - changing lizards and carbon - dumping sea creatures.

But the genus is known to feed on frogs, lizards and small mammals.

The world's largest lizard, Komodo dragons live on five small islands in Indonesia.

«There's a very limited road system, and most of our travels are either by foot or by small airplane,» says Austin, who often spends weeks camped on the banks of the Sepik River in the north - central rain forest where he collects lizards, snakes, and frogs.

If a big male drags him off before the crucial moment, the prepared semen of the smaller male has already been deposited and the larger lizard won't get to mate.

Its sturdy forelimbs suggest it could chase possums, lizards and other small prey up into trees.

Gila monsters These nearly two - foot - long lizards use their poisonous bite to prey on small animals in the southwestern United States.

A genetic investigation into the illegal trade of sailfin dragons has unearthed a surprise: a new species of the rainbow - colored lizards that resemble small dinosaurs.

Foot - fouling grime restricts interloping geckos on a small island, while native lizards curl their toes and use their claws to dash up dusty surfaces

He says, however, because they are small and easy to keep in captivity — unlike wild mice, which are notoriously difficult to maintain in cages — wall lizards would make a good model species for experiments designed to determine the effects of toxins on mortality, reproduction and growth.

The lizard - or anole - is native to a small slice of rainforest in northern Ecuador.

Vasconcellos - Neto believes that the high temperatures and the spines of M. violaceus — which don't inconvenience the lizard — prevent the small mammals of the area from eating the fruit, «leaving Tropidurus torquatus as apparently the exclusive disperser of its seeds» (Ciencia Hoje, vol 15, No 89).

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds — and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards — reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.

Gila lizards produce exendin - 4, a small venom protein used in the treatment of diabetes and obesity, which is a competitor to Victoza ® — produced by Novo Nordisk.

Aside from their chameleon - like ability to change colors, the males of these small, agile lizards also possess a throat fan — known as a dewlap — which they use during territorial disputes and for courtship.

The new species, which can grow to well over a meter in length, was named Varanus semotus, a Latin reference to the remoteness and isolation of the relatively small and partly volcanic island where the lizard was found.

A small green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis, right) in the southern United States used to have the only game running when it came to hunting insects.

But the plains lizards — most of which lack crests — tend to have wider mouths, which help them crunch on smaller but harder beetlelike bugs, even without the attractive head feature.

Lizards from smaller islands with fewer types of predator, or that had been disconnected from mainland predators for longer, let her come far closer compared with their more fearful relatives (Evolution, doi.org/ws7).

The unfertilized eggs of some animals (small invertebrates, worms, some species of fish, lizards and frogs) can develop into full - grown adults under certain environmental conditions — usually a chemical stimulus of some kind.

BOUNCING DROPSThis video shows how small liquid droplets can not sit on the lizard's skin.

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The game, which has been remade a few times since its initial arcade release in 1986, featured a small cast of the usual suspects of big monsters from movies that destroy cities — a big gorilla, and a big lizard — and also a giant wolfman because why not.

Oh, and it's nice to see Farva himself, Kevin Heffernan of Broken Lizard in a small role.

But the most interesting workstation artifacts are the ones that tell about the person whose workstation it is — snapshots of a mountain climbing trip, magazine cutouts of small airplanes, photos of celebrity heartthrobs like Josh Hartnett and Angelina Jolie, and stuffed monkeys and lizards.

And the spread toes had small hooked claws, and not the sucker pads of the bakehouse lizards.