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Sudan Plated Lizard

Gerrhosaurus major

This reptile is well protected with its overlaying plated scales.  Strangely, it will sometimes share an underground burrow with a snake or dwarf mongoose.  It may look very stout, but this reptile has a flexible body that allows it to defensively tail whip or wriggle free from a predator's grasp.  Like many other lizards, it can also drop its tail in a last ditch effort to escape a predator.

 

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