Can lizards live almost everywhere around the world?

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Lizards Many people think lizards only live in the desert. However, lizards are found almost everywhere around the world. There are almost 3,800 species worldwide.

Over 110 kinds can be found in the United States. Lizards including iguanas, monitors, geckos, and horned lizards are the most common and fascinating reptile. In some areas of the US, people mistake lizards for salamanders.

Salamanders and lizards are not related. Salamanders are amphibians like frogs. Lizards and snakes are closely related.

Size: The largest lizard is the Komodo monitor. It can grow to be over 10 feet long (3 meters). It can weigh nearly 300 pounds.

The smallest lizard is a tiny gecko. Characteristics: Most lizards have dry, scaly skin, four legs, clawed feet, external ear openings, and a long tail. Lizards have a fragile, detachable tail.

Many species have a weak point in their a tail. A slight tug or bump can be all that's needed to break it off. The thrashing tail distracts the predator.In some lizards, brightly colored tails increase the chance of losing a tail rather than losing a life.

However, not all lizards lose their tails easily. For example, the collared lizard (above), has a sturdy tail that is rarely lost. Lizard tails help in balance and locomotion.

Tails are also part of the social status and an area for fat storage. Losing the tail can be a serious problem for a lizard. If they live long enough, some lizards can grow back their tail.

Food: Lizard diets vary. Most smaller types are insectivores. They eat insects and spiders.

Other species are herbivores. Galapagos Island's marine iguanas feed on algae off the wet rocks. Spiny lizards are omnivores.

They eat both plants and small animals. Some of the larger lizards like the Gila Monster are carnivores. They eat small animals including other lizards.

Most lizards find their food visually through movement. Whiptails may use their sense of smell to find small animals under in the soil. Llizards have a small row of teeth on their upper and lower jaws.

They also have teeth on the roof of their mouth. Food is crushed in their jaws, then swallowed with little chewing. Habitat: Many lizards live in deserts, but others live in temperate forests, rainforests, prairies, marshes and streams, subterranean burrows, or rocky outcrops.

However most lizards live on the ground or in trees. Lizards are the easiest reptile to watch because they are common. They are most active in the warm, daylight summer hours.

They usually feed when temperatures raise above sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. On very hot days, some lizards hide in burrows or underneath rocks. They may come back out in the cooler afternoon.

Other species are more active during midday heat. Most lizards hibernate through the winter, but may come out on warm days to feed. Locomotion: Lizards move in interesting ways.

Most lizards can run, climb, and cling. A few species can swim. A few can also glide through the air.

More often, people see lizards quickly scamper over logs, rocks, tree trunks, and across the ground. Some lizards raise their bodies and run along on their hind legs. Several lizards that live on the ground get along with weak, nearly useless legs or do not have legs at all.

Reproduction: Most lizards place their eggs in a nest. Other lizards do not lay their eggs, but give birth after hatching their eggs inside the body. Still other lizard species give birth to live young.

The female lizards do not care for their babies. Predators: The lizard has many enemies. Many lizards are eaten by raptors and other birds.

They are also eaten by carnivorous mammals, snakes, and by other lizards. Defenses: Some lizards have the ability to easily detach their tails (below left), thereby giving them a chance to escape from the predator. When threatened, other lizards may bluff by swelling up, hissing, or lashing their tail.

Collared lizards do a rapid series of pushups to scare their enemy. Some lizards are chameleons and can change colors. Some species change color for protection, while some become darker or lighter to change the amount of heat they absorb.

The Gila monster and the beaded lizard are the only poisonous lizards. However, be careful when approaching any lizard. Not all lizards are harmless.

Many lizards bite or have sharp spines. Some even squirts a thin stream of blood from their eyes. Other Threats: Human activities sometimes threaten lizards.

In some countries, people gather their eggs and hunt large lizards for food. Lizards have been killed for their skins to make wallets, handbags, and other products. Today, many countries forbid killing lizards for their skins.

Development and construction can destroy their habitats. Sources: http://eduscapes.com/nature/lizard/index2.htm .

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Animal keeper: meet the caretaker of a museum's living exhibits. Davies loves her job because it keeps her on her toes. For instance, take the water monitor displayed in the Lizards and Snakes exhibition.

What to serve this sharp-toothed lizard? In the wild, it uses its forked tongue A forked tongue is a tongue split into two distinct ends at the tip. This is a feature common to many species of reptiles.

Reptiles smell using the tip of their tongue, and a forked tongue allows them to tell which direction a smell is coming from...... Click the link for more information. To "smell" its prey--live rats. But the museum isn't in the business of raising packs of rats, so when it came to mealtime, more imaginative strategies were needed.

Davies had to dangle dangle Nursing A popular term for the first movement a Pt is allowed, either after surgery under general anesthesia, or 'under local', where the recuperee allows his/her feet to dangle over the side of the bed..... Click the link for more information. A dead rat from the tip of long tongs tongslong-handled, about 3 feet, shaped like pincers with knobs on the ends of the grasping blades. Applied by standing behind the subject in a confined space and closing the jaws to grasp the animal's head just below the ears...... Click the link for more information.So the 1-meter (3-foot) long lizard could sniff it out.

"Every morning, I would find the lizard waiting at the door for me--almost like a dog," she says. And then there was the time when she brought a breakfast of crickets to a 30-centimeter-(1-foot) long lizard that climbs and clings to trees with gripping toe pads. The lizard--a leaf-tailed gecko--leapt into the air and landed on her face.

"I thought it was asleep," says Davies. "It was funny, but after that I was more aware of where it was every time I opened the cage." Sources: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Animal+keeper:+meet+the+caretaker+of+a+museum%27s+living+exhibits.-a0175549204 .

Many people think lizards only live in the desert. However, lizards are found almost everywhere.... Many people think lizards only live in the desert. However, lizards are found almost everywhere around the world.

There are almost 3,800 species worldwide. Over 110 kinds can be found in the United States. Lizards including iguanas, monitors, geckos, and horned lizards are the most common and fascinating reptile.In some areas of the US, people mistake lizards for salamanders.

Salamanders and lizards are not related. Salamanders are amphibians like frogs. Lizards and snakes are closely related.

Size: The largest lizard is the Komodo monitor. It can grow to be over 10 feet long (3 meters). It can weigh nearly 300 pounds.

The smallest lizard is a tiny gecko. Characteristics: Most lizards have dry, scaly skin, four legs, clawed feet, external ear openings, and a long tail. Lizards have a fragile, detachable tail.

Many species have a weak point in their a tail. A slight tug or bump can be all that's needed to break it off. The thrashing tail distracts the predator.

In some lizards, brightly colored tails increase the chance of losing a tail rather than losing a life. However, not all lizards lose their tails easily. For example, the collared lizard (above), has a sturdy tail that is rarely lost.

Lizard tails help in balance and locomotion. Tails are also part of the social status and an area for fat storage. Losing the tail can be a serious problem for a lizard.

If they live long enough, some lizards can grow back their tail. Food: Lizard diets vary. Most smaller types are insectivores.

They eat insects and spiders. Other species are herbivores. Galapagos Island's marine iguanas feed on algae off the wet rocks.

Spiny lizards are omnivores. They eat both plants and small animals. Some of the larger lizards like the Gila Monster are carnivores.

They eat small animals including other lizards. Most lizards find their food visually through movement. Whiptails may use their sense of smell to find small animals under in the soil.

Llizards have a small row of teeth on their upper and lower jaws. They also have teeth on the roof of their mouth. Food is crushed in their jaws, then swallowed with little chewing.

Habitat: Many lizards live in deserts, but others live in temperate forests, rainforests, prairies, marshes and streams, subterranean burrows, or rocky outcrops. However most lizards live on the ground or in trees. Lizards are the easiest reptile to watch because they are common.

They are most active in the warm, daylight summer hours. They usually feed when temperatures raise above sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. On very hot days, some lizards hide in burrows or underneath rocks.

They may come back out in the cooler afternoon. Other species are more active during midday heat. Most lizards hibernate through the winter, but may come out on warm days to feed.

Locomotion: Lizards move in interesting ways. Most lizards can run, climb, and cling. A few species can swim.

A few can also glide through the air. More often, people see lizards quickly scamper over logs, rocks, tree trunks, and across the ground. Some lizards raise their bodies and run along on their hind legs.

Several lizards that live on the ground get along with weak, nearly useless legs or do not have legs at all. Sources: http://eduscapes.com/nature/lizard/index2.htm .

I've always thought they were cute, and they could live in my above ground pool.

I know salamanders and newts are not lizards.

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