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Mandrills are the most colourful mammals in the world. The skin colours brighten as the animal gets more excited. Males have an orange/yellow beard and an unmistakable bright red and blue snout and rump. Females and juveniles have a duller blue snout and Full Review »
A quiet and camouflaged guenon monkey, living in small groups in the West African forest. A long tailed monkey with a grizzled, long coat on the back, darker underparts and limbs, long greyish cheek hairs, a pink mouth, bluish skin around the eyes, bluish Full Review »
When visiting the University of Florida, many if not most people are surprised to hear that alligators live in the lake and ponds on campus. Some non-believers have to be taken to Lake Alice, in the center of campus, and shown good size alligators swimmin Full Review »
Chameleons are a type of lizard that has the ability to change the color of their skin with the temperature, light, and the chameleon's emotional level. They become paler when excited, afraid, or in the dark or cold; they become darker when angry or in ho Full Review »
Q: How do chameleons change color and how do they know what color to change to? It's easy to find an answer to this question and it can be a myth: Put a chameleon on a green blanket and watch it turn green. Untrue. "It's a popular misconception t Full Review »
The horrible suspicious venomous lizards of the new world. A rough translation from latin of the word Heloderma would be stud or decorative nail skin. Horridum would be frightful or horrible, and suspectum would be suspicious or distrusted. With scientifi Full Review »
The Gila monster is a large, heavy- bodied lizard reaching a little over 1¼ feet in length. The head is large, with small, beady eyes; the tail is short and fat. The family name Helodermatidae means "warty skin," referring to the beaded look of the Full Review »
The Gila monster is one of only two surviving species of venomous lizards that once roamed the earth 30-40 million years ago. The Gila Monster's family name was derived from the Greek word helos, which means decorative stud and derma means skin. The commo Full Review »
The green anaconda is the largest snake in the world. Although famous, very little is known about its life history. Until I began my research, no field studies had been carried out on the species. Due to the skin trade and habitat degradation its numbers Full Review »
The African Rock Python is a large, constricting snake that lives in sub-Saharan Africa. The adult African Rock Python's main predator is man; it is killed for its beautiful skin, meat, and fat (used in tribal medicines). Other predators include crocodile Full Review »
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