Kane County Standard | 1931-06-05 | Page 5 | Lizard Teaches Lesson

lizard teaches lesson leron chuckwallas Chuck wallas are gentle aud and easily handled and make interesting pets if captured and kept in comfortable ilu quarters arters with a satisfactory food supply we know too little of the hab its of even our common wild neigh bors and these dwellers in the desert could teach us many things that we wa do not understand says nature magazine for instance if we could eliminate the waste of our bodies by means of dry urle add acid instead of by drinking quantities of water tt it would be very convenient at times and we might go for or months without drinking avater apparently none of the cold blooded reptiles suffer stiffer from the heat and many thrive in the hottest parts of our low desert valleys basking on rocks so hot that one can hardly bear to touch them with the naked hand