Working from home today and tomorrow. Did everyone see all the amazing #Disney news?!?! I'm really excited about a lot of things!!

#MondaySelfie  #MondayVibes #Coffee #Caffeine #WorkFromHomeSelfie #Selfie #MondaysSuck #HornedLizard

I’m working on a big project that requires a lot of Western elements. I grew up in the west, but I’ve drawn very little of it aside from horses. These little guys are a blast though

#hornedlizard #charcoal #digitalart #blackandwhite #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #reptiles #lizards #sketch #photostudy #western #texas

@KateShaw does the Horned Lizard or "horntoad" , and it's delicious diet of harvester ant ... which unfortunately is being outcompeted by invasive fire ants in some places:

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/04/15/episode-376-the-horned-lizard-aka-horny-toad/

and it's a great episode.

#lizard
#hornToad
#hornedLizard
#ants

Can you find the horned lizard?

I used to love this game that AfroHerper played on ExTwitter, so here's my version of it from the recent Mexico biodiversity cataloging expedition.

There is a Ditmars horned lizard ("horny toad") in this photo. It's the one I found and the first of only two found on the trip. It's a juvenile about 3" long.

If you see it, don't spill the beans! I'm hitting the road soon, but will give the answer tomorrow or tonight.

BTW, it's not hidden in the watermark or anything sneaky like that. They are just really hard to spot on the ground until they move.

#herps #lizard #HornedLizard #HornyToad #camouflage #biodiversity

One of the focuses of the recent Mexico biodiversity expedition was finding these interesting Ditmars' horned lizards. I found the first one, of only two found on the entire trip. This was not a range extension, per se, but more of an infill between known ranges in the sky island region of northern Sonora.

There is a tradition that you have to kiss the first one you find and then a bottle of tequila is opened for the occasion. Out of four trips, this was the first one I ever found.

They are fascinating little creatures. Their main predators are ravens and small canids like coyotes and foxes, so they are not particularly afraid of large animals like us or cows or deer. They are quite docile and even a wild one will take a grasshopper offered to it without trying to run away.

Alt text (because the site keeps crashing): first photo is a small horned lizard sitting in the palm of my hand. Second photo is me fake-kissing the same lizard while holding it.

#Biodiversity #Mexico #Sonora #Herps #HornedLizard

oh it's going to be like that is it?

#hornedlizard #hornedtoad