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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 17, 2010 - 03:38pm PT
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I was just wondering if anyone knows what kind of lizard this is. I am keywording my photos and always like to put everything I can in there!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 03:40pm PT
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Juvenile collared lizard
Crotaphytus collaris
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Dec 17, 2010 - 05:14pm PT
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God dammit Ron, you know everything. Happy holidays from Patagonia.
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skywalker
climber
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Dec 17, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
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Well Sh*t that was quick...
Off to Panama maybe I can find one Piton Ron will have trouble with :-).
Cheers!
S...
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2010 - 05:23pm PT
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Thanks Ron!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 06:34pm PT
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What was funny was that I got Dingus to delete!
He actually had the second post, also at 12:40.
But he was being a smartass.
a lizard
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j-tree
Trad climber
bay area, ca
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Dec 17, 2010 - 06:59pm PT
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My father (a herpetologist) used to take us down to the desert to hunt these (along with chuckwallas, zebra-tailed lizards and leopard lizards) when I was a kid
Take a fishing pole, attach a copperwire with a slip-noose on the end, noose the necks, flick the pole up and viola, you got to sit around with your dad teaching you about markings and parasites and other stuff only a herpetologist would find interesting.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 07:05pm PT
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Chucks make the coolest pets, very social.
Leopards are the worst, but collareds can be pretty feisty too.
Got to catch them as juveniles and work with them.
The one in the photos would be perfect. They are not as sexually dimorphic as chucks but I think that one is a female. The males have more green.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 17, 2010 - 07:37pm PT
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big deal. five crummy lizards in these parts. collared lizard, chuckwalla, western fence, bluebelly, whiptail. guess which one has the collar? takes a genius. guess which one has the blue belly? need an einstein. guess which one has the whiptail? human I.Q. ain't evolved that far yet. two left over, one's big, the other's little. gila monster doesn't count, it's not a lizard, it's a monster.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 07:41pm PT
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Gila monsters ARE lizards, and super cool ones at that.
Rare to see, they spend 90+% underground.
But don't put down the western whiptail. Buggers are so fast they do "wheelies".
They can reproduce asexually, so perhaps its not surprising that they can be cannibalistic too.
EDIT
Tobias you may be correct, I considered our local subspecies, but it looks like the vestigium range overlaps some SoCal areas where Prezwoods might frequent.
We need him to say where the photo was taken to better ascertain.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 17, 2010 - 07:50pm PT
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if they were lizards, they'd'a called them gila lizards. next thing you're gonna tell me, we got sonora pass lizards.
never had so much fun as when a whiptail came into an office where i worked. one guy had to play hero and grabbed it by the tail to take it outside. of course the tail came detached and wiggled on its own for the next 15 minutes, getting passed around and generating screams and shrieks.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 08:17pm PT
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Looks like the ones near here.
Further south is the reticulate phase.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 08:35pm PT
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Coral snakes are not much of a problem.
They're just in AZ and a tiny chunk of NM.
Sometimes a little kid will root around in some dead leaves and get bit, but they have to chew in their venom with back teeth.
The Kingsnakes that spawned that ditty are some of my faves though.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2010 - 08:39pm PT
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Had a friend with a large male red iguana.
She would get him all worked up with some head bobbing and then hold a mirror in front of him.
He would charge the mirror, butting it hard.
Then he would do it again.
Then he would stop, walk over to the edge of the mirror and look behind it!!!!!!!!111166666
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 17, 2010 - 08:44pm PT
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Ron's iguana/mirror story proves that at least some lizards are smarter than politicians, and much of the public.
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j-tree
Trad climber
bay area, ca
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Dec 17, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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My fav in the area was definitely the zebra tailed lizard. If you didn't get them before they noticed you they'd take off at high speed with their tails sticking up in the air showing the white and black bars. Pretty markings on the belly to boot.
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DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
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Dec 18, 2010 - 12:23am PT
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Sierra Fence Lizard on the back side of Cathedral Rocks: lots of males out and about in mid-June; when I would stop to look they would start doing push-ups and I would back off.
But what is this? - on Ahwiyah Point in August.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 18, 2010 - 01:50am PT
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Lizard bump.
Lizards are cool.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 18, 2010 - 02:23am PT
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I'm mere weeks away from heading off to Brasil to catch me a Bushmaster and
a Fer-de-lance if I'm lucky. Woo-Hoo! Hope they don't check my carry-on
too closely.
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