Lizard - unsurpassed master of disguise, brisk reptile, its scaly sea animal resembling a small copy of the ancient world.The modern individual, the average life expectancy that is 3-5 years, mainly small size - from 10 to 40 cm. The largest representative of - pearl lizard - a little less than a meter in length.
Description
distinctive feature of modern lizards are movable eyelids, oblong body, medium size legs and a long tail.Desert residents are endowed with long fingers with lateral teeth, making it easy to move around on the sand without sinking deeper.
Lizards voiceless.The exceptions are some species that live in the Canaries and published in times of danger squeak.
green lizard feeds on invertebrates: grasshoppers, butterflies, grasshoppers, spiders, snails, slugs, worms.Dinner large individuals can become snakes, small rodents or birds masonry.By mining lizard creep quietly, trying not to frighten, and then suddenly her mouth throw and catch.Also lizards like to eat some fruit plants: cherries, cherry, cranberry, grape.
Reproduction occurs several times in a season, in large individuals - once a year.For lady love males are fierce fighting, accompanied by bloodshed.The female lays eggs (from the smallest representatives of from 2 to 4, in large - up to 18 pieces), which hides in burrows or buried in the soil.Cubs are born in 3-6 weeks, and immediately begin an independent life.
adaptability to environmental conditions
Lizard inherent tenacity toes with claws on the legs moving, providing high speed and agility when moving at Climbing trees and shrubs to a height of several meters.Painting, optimally adapted for the environment, is an effective means of camouflage in the case of imminent danger.This allows virtually merge with the outside world.The most common lizard Green.Also, there are gray and brown individuals, endowed with bright spots (blue, red, turquoise, yellow) on the neck, abdomen and sides.Lizard in the desert is different in yellow body, simulating the texture of sand.
enemies she has enough.It storks, snakes, ravens, kingfishers, hoopoes, small falcons.Therefore, to protect the lizard - the unsurpassed master of disguise - uses a variety of methods: a fast race with sharp turns unpredictable, fading, burying in the sand.
unique feature - getting rid of the tail
above methods to save his own life in imminent danger complemented this unique property lizards, as a deliverance from its tail, or rather, on its part.
when you anticipate a vicious arms of the enemy in the claws of the latter in the best case will be twisting the tail of the segment, knocking him off.A brisk animal dived for a long time in the next loophole, leaving enemies, as they say, with the nose.Some types of lizards can leave with a tail only at a young age, completely losing this ability over time.
tail lizard - a spine, which consists of several zones, connected by a cartilage, muscles and ligaments.Each site is capable of smoothly torn, so when danger arose dropping tail reptile occurs spontaneously as a result of severe muscle spasms.
By the way, a dead lizard's tail is very difficult to tear, and a successful attempt to break turns ragged, with protruding beams muscles - not like a living reptile.
The experiments show that if headless lizard deprived brain, grab the tip of the tail, it will throw it with the same ease as in ordinary life.Autotomy also observed in such flora as pholcidae, crabs, echinoderms.
In place of the gap from the loss of the tail forms a film that prevents bleeding.Almost immediately there is a restoration of the cartilaginous rod that acquires new scaly skin and muscles without the restoration of the vertebrae.However, a new tail is not as mobile and on the size of an order of magnitude shorter than the old one.Regrowth of the lost lizards occur in a period of months to years (depending on the size of the animal).
Consequences
no tail, a so-called steering, a lizard - a consummate master of disguise - loses its inherent agility, agility, quickness and ability to reproduce.Water lizard lose the ability to swim, which forces them to change the way of life.
Tail is a kind of battery energy stored fats and nutrients.Therefore, after his loss lizard - the unsurpassed master of disguise - may simply die.Most reptile, which has been able to escape, finds its tail and eats it in order to restore the lost power.
rare to find in the forest lizard with two tails.This can be explained by the fact that one unfavorable moment she still was in the teeth of a predator, leaving that to the memory of a little piece of his body.After some time on the site of the lost part of the new segment will grow at a whole remained almost the old tail.
