Oh boy! Tiger whiptail is back! Whiptail is back!

It immediately remembered me. Or at least remembered that the whistling hairless ape has free food. It ran right up to me when I whistled for it.

Now, anyone who spends time out here in the desert knows that it's hard to get within 20 feet of a whiptail. They are very fast and very skittish. This one, on the other hand, when I first met it, was climbing all over me after tossing it four or five mealworms.

I want to try making friends with other whiptails to see if that level of food-friendliness is a species-level characteristic or if I just met a friendly one.

Latin name: Aspidoscelis tigris

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