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Are lizards poisonous?
There are two kinds of poisonous lizards. Including the blunt-tailed venomous lizard from the southwestern United States to the northwestern part of Mexico and the pearl venomous lizard distributed along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Guatemala.

Blunt-tailed poisonous lizard:

The total length is generally 38-58 cm. It moves slowly and has a short tail. It is an organ that stores fat. The body surface is covered with fine non-overlapping scales, and the bottom has intradermal osteogenesis. The body color is colorful and dark, with yellow, pink, light red or black stripes. This is a poisonous lizard. After poisoning the prey with the venom in your mouth, swallow it slowly. Young lizards are born with terrible venom, which is very powerful. In addition to foraging, the big poisonous lizard spends 90% of its time hiding in underground caves. Their climbing skills are first-class. In the wild, they often climb trees to prey on young birds or eggs.

Pearl poisonous lizard:

Guatemala iguana, also known as iguana subspecies of Guatemala, iguana subspecies of Guatemala or iguana subspecies of Mexico, is an endangered subspecies of iguana of Mexico, which is distributed in the arid forest of Motagua Valley in northeast Guatemala. It belongs to the poisonous lizard family, a reptile with poisonous secretory glands. They are not only exotic species of Mexican lizard, but also different from other subspecies in color and size, and are the smallest species.

Pearl lizards in Guatemala live in valleys full of nests of pigeons and parrots, and their eggs are their main food. The trunk where the bird's nest is located is enough to support the weight of their bodies. They also prey on insects such as beetles and crickets.

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Living habits:

Poisonous lizards are different from poisonous snakes. Their fangs are not in the upper jaw, but in the lower jaw. The poison lizard has poison glands in its mandible, and the venom is injected into its mouth through a catheter, and then enters the wound bitten by the poison lizard through the groove of its fangs. People bitten by poisonous lizards are painful, but rarely fatal.

Poisonous lizards are slow-moving carnivores, mainly eating young rats in caves and eating food such as birds' eggs. Poisonous lizards eat a lot when they are active, and store some temporarily unnecessary things such as fat in their bodies, mainly their tails. It can live on fat stored in the body for a long time. According to records, a poisonous lizard once set a record of surviving without eating for three years.

Mating in July, digging a cave with a depth of about 65438±0.25mm in the open area from the end of July to mid-August, and then laying 3-7 eggs in the cave, the egg diameter is (67-75) × (33-39) mm, and the shell is thin and rough. The incubation period is 28 ~ 30 days.

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