Show Lizard Teaches Lesson Leason Chuckwallas are gentle and easily handled and make Interesting pets if captured and kept In comfortable Quarters with a satisfactory food sup sup- ply We Ve know too little of the hab habIts habIts habits Its of even een our common wild neigh neighbors neighbors neighbors bors and these dwellers in the desert desen could teach us many things that we wedo do not understand says Nature Maga zine zinc For Instance If we could eliminate eliminate nate the waste of our bodies by means of ot dry uric acid instead of ot by drinking quantities of ot water it would be very convenient at times Umes and we might go for months without drinking water Apparently none of the cold 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 |