The catch

The catch
Originally uploaded by wandering lizard.

I've had some complaints about the proportion of bird photos on this page lately, so here is a photo of one of the Uromastyx aegyptius that I've been working with. I finally got a photo (in focus) with one of them. They are certainly easier to catch in the spring, when they actually come out of their burrows once in a while. I have 6 now, ranging in size from a subadult female at 800g, to a monster male at 2.8kg. Now if I can just squeeze the 4 weeks of experiments into the 5 weeks I have left here...