Biologists in Florida found a lizard with a big belly, and thought that the lizard might be pregnant, but the biologist Crouch found that the story of this lizard was not so simple, and it was almost like a small egg in the abdomen, but the food it ate could not be excreted to form the, and now the lizard's excrement is enough to make it life-threatening!
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In fact, it is not dead to be precise, but the biologist Crouch found that it was on the verge of death, and in order to save it from suffering, he performed euthanasia for it! But this is only the result, why would this lizard eat itself to death? That's a lot to say!
The beach where the lizard survives determines the tragic fate of this lizard
This creature lives near the pizzeria in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where insects and other small reptiles are its food, and it occasionally swallows the grease-soaked sand grains of tourists after eating on the beach, which leads to the result that a large amount of sand is swallowed and difficult to excrete from the lizard's delicate intestines, and gradually accumulates in the lizard's belly, day after day, finally began to affect its physical function!
Because these sand particles stick together to form a clump, the first sand is too dense, forming a burden, causing the lizard to have difficulty moving, and the second is that the sand ball occupies almost all the space, the lizard can not swallow food, will gradually starve to death! The third is that the internal organs are squeezed by this sand mass, especially the liver, so that the lizard suffers the double blow of internal organ atrophy under malnutrition conditions, and finally makes Crouch make up his mind to perform euthanasia to free it!
The amount of that broke the world record
Crouch dissected the poor lizard, and sure enough, the internal organs had already been severely squeezed and began to shrink, so it was really painful to live for a long time! Edward Stanley, an associate scientist in the Department of Reptiology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said the sand formed such a dense mass that X-ray tomography could clear the sand mass!
Crouch deliberately assessed its weight, the lizard weighed about 28 grams, the sand was as high as 22 grams, accounting for 78.5% of the entire body, simply put, the lizard's feces were nearly 3.5 times heavier than the body (net weight), which is an unprecedented proportion, because biologists said that the weight of the feces of The Burmese python was also 13%, which has surprised biologists! And what is more interesting is that Crouch also found that the amount of lizard droppings is huge or common, and it is found that more than 30% of the lizards are found, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before they are killed by the.
About the Florida Capuchin Lizard
In fact, the capuchin lizard is an invasive species, its origin is located in the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands, in 1940 by a resident brought into Florida, the earlier meaning was to let it hunt local pests, obviously this purpose was achieved, but this lizard is more fierce, but almost the local relatively small lizard species as a new food source, almost killed it!
Maybe their natural predators are their own arrogant way of eating, prey and sand eat together, of course, there are local people to blame, maybe the vicinity of the pizzeria is also a big factor, grease pollution of the beach is obviously not a good thing, but this just gives the intruder a fatal blow! Pollution still needs to be treated, and the problem of biological invasion is left to biologists!