Do you see it? It’s a teeny, tiny little thing. From snout to back legs is maybe an inch – add in the tail and it might be two.
I’ve said it before, but I don’t remember ever having so many lizards hatching so late in the year. I’ve always seen the babies, the little ones, in the spring. Maybe in the early summer at the latest. Not this year.
Dr. Earyn McGee, of the famous “FindThatLizard” weekly Twitter events which I so dearly love, called these tiny guys “popcorn” lizards. Their main function in the universe is to be food for other critters and bigger lizards.
A few make it and get bigger. And I understand they need to be bigger to have the reserves needed to make it through the winter when they become dormant.
They become dormant in the winter because it gets cold and wet. Maybe they know something we don’t?
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