Show lizard I 1 teaches lesion lesson chuckwallas are gentle and easily handled and make interesting pets if it captured and kept in comfortable quarters with a satisfactory food sup ply 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 do not understand sas mature nature maga faga zine for instance if it we could elaml nafe the waste of our bodies by means of dry uric acid instead of b by y drinking quantities of water it would be ery very convenient at times and we might go for months without drinking water apparently none of the cold blooded reptiles suffer 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 |