One of this year's Zoology graduates, Kate Statham (pictured with a female Whiptail lizard), is now indulging her passion for lizards (she did a project on behaviour of the Leopard gecko) on the Island of St Lucia. Island reptiles show many interesting adaptations to their local circumstances and such animals actually have found it easier to reach some remote oceanic island localities than small mammals (they can switch down their metabolism or travel as eggs).
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Lounge Lizards
One of this year's Zoology graduates, Kate Statham (pictured with a female Whiptail lizard), is now indulging her passion for lizards (she did a project on behaviour of the Leopard gecko) on the Island of St Lucia. Island reptiles show many interesting adaptations to their local circumstances and such animals actually have found it easier to reach some remote oceanic island localities than small mammals (they can switch down their metabolism or travel as eggs).
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