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Show How to Raise Lizard as Pet of Household "Pets often lead a miserable existence," exist-ence," says Professor Jones. "If one takes home a lizard from the woods, one ought to study its' wauls as he would those of any oilier helpless thing depending for its very life upon him. "In captivity' the 'chameleon,' as many people wrongly call It, soon learns to take food from the fingers. Mealworms and flies are the favorite diet; it will also take roaches. The sugar-ate, -water diet so often imposed upon these reptiles by kindly inten-tioned inten-tioned but misinformed people is only taken by the lizard to quench a killing thirst, for these little animals drink much and if deprived of water will rapidly weaken and die. Their method of drinking is to lap the drops of dew from vegetation. The quarters of cap-live cap-live swills' should be sprinkled daily, that they may drink jn this manner; they do not readily find a dish of water." Professor Jones said that he bad had the rare experience of once watching watch-ing a lizard lapping the dew from u spider's web. |