Show lizard teaches lesson leon chuckwallas Chuck wallas are gentle and easily handled and make interesting pets if 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 tench teach us many things that we do not understand says nature magazine for instance if we could eliminate the waste of aar our bodies boches by means 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 drink drinking ing water apparently none of the col cold 1 blooded reptiles suffer from the heat and many thrive in the hottest parts olour of our low de deaerts ert valleys basking on rocks so hot that one can hardly bear to touch them with the naked hand |