What on Earth is a ChuckwallaEach volume fully explores the lifestyles and habitats of animals that few people even know exist. Simple, concise text covers the animal's classification, its unique characteristics, its methods of survival, what the animal eats and who eats it, reproduction and care of the young, conservation issues, and the relationship of the animal to humans. Each book's large size and stunning, full-color photographs bring these remarkable subjects to life. A glossary, further reading list, map, and index make What on Earth? books as educational as they are fun! |
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animals share Arizona attract females BAD LIZARD BALANCE OF NATURE bellies bite bluff bob its head BODY SHAPE BODY TEMPERATURE boulders BRIGHTER burrow centimeters chamber chuckwalla country chuckwalla is Sauromalus CHUCKWALLA IS WEDGED CHUCKWALLA'S BODY cold color crawl creatures cross bands DELICATE BALANCE digging DINOSAUR DOTS SPRINKLED Earth EASILY DISTURBED eats especially extinct family of lizards female is ready fertilization fierce flattened flowers folds of skin food plants giant chuckwallas gray ground grow Gulf of California HABITAT HATCH hawks Heavy folds HUMANS MUST TAKE IGUANIDS THAT LIVE islands lay her eggs look lungs MALE CHUCKWALLAS mate MEANS FAT MEXICO neck North America ONCE A CHUCKWALLA organism Predators PUFFY rats reptile's body reptiles roadrunners rock crevice Sauromalus obesus SCALY scientific name scientists sex cell share the desert skin droop snakes sperm STAKE surroundings survive tail teeth TERRITORIES WITH PLANTS thick throat underground yellow YOUNG CHUCKWALLAS