Show lizard teaches lexon lesson chuckwallas Chuck wallas are gentle and easily handled and make anale interesting pets if captured and kept in comfor comfortable filble quarters with a satisfactory food sup ply we know too little of the hab its of even een our common wild neigh bors and these dwellers in the desert could teach us many things that we do not understand says nature maga blaga zene for instance if we could eliminate the waste of our bodies by means of dry uric add acid instead of by drinking quantities of water it would be 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 |