Image: Arthur Chapman Tropidurus melanopleurus |
The Black Lava Lizard is small and throws stones at you. The Yellow Lava Lizard looks identical but it's slightly bigger and sets the stones on fire before throwing them at you. And the Red Lava Lizard is even bigger but it breathes fire.
Image: Arthur Chapman Female |
Not that there's a dearth of stones in their habitat; they live on the eastern side of the Andes in Argentina and Bolivia.
Image: Arthur Chapman Male |
Males look a little more outrageous, with all manner of greens and yellows, reds and blues, spots and stripes.
Video: Martin Jansen
Sometimes they get into precarious fights on the near-vertical rock of the Andes!
It's such a ludicrous place to be leaping and biting at each other. Couldn't they just throw stones until one of them loses their footing? Seems safer that way.
2 comments:
they're very cool!
Yup! Which is odd for something called a Lava Lizard!
Post a Comment