Southern Prairie Lizard
by Janette Boyd
Title
Southern Prairie Lizard
Artist
Janette Boyd
Medium
Photograph - Photo/texture/digital
Description
Photo taken of Southern Prairie Lizard on walking path near downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Texture called, "CopperPot1" was added using Corel Paintshop's techniques of brushes and blending.
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*Our Four Legged Friends
Southern Prairie Lizard
Sceloporus Consobrinus
Lizards belong to the animal class Reptilia, which also includes snakes, turtles and crocodiles. They possess a backbone and are covered with scales. Eggs are laid on land and possess a shell and special membranes for the embryo. The young emerge as small replicas of the parents and do not undergo a completely different change of body form as part of their life cycle. For those that have legs, claws are present on the toes. These are some of the characteristics which serve to distinguish the reptiles from other vertebrate animals.
Kinds of Lizards
The range in variation of lizards is great. In size, they extend from tiny forms only a few inches in total length to the great Komodo Dragon, which may exceed ten feet in length. From blind, limbless, burrowing lizards, the other extreme extends to large, long-legged tree dwellers, with excellent vision, and to active forms that run on their hind legs. From smooth, shiny, polished kinds, the range extends to short, squat, extremely spiny, horned lizards.
Lizards eat a wide variety of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates.
Reproduction: Female fence lizards generally lay 3 -16 eggs in the late spring. The eggs hatch in late summer and hatchlings look like miniature adults.
Do Lizards Bite:
Some lizards give a warning before biting - if a lizard opens its mouth wide, swells and hisses at the same time, this is a warning that it may be about to bite. The wall lizard or gecko, found in most homes, is not poisonous at all. It only checks insect population.
http://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/sceund.htm
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June 15th, 2017
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