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The female armadillo girdled lizard gives birth to one [3] or two [6] live young; the species is one of the few lizards that does not lay eggs. The female may even feed her young, which is also unusual for a lizard. Females give birth once a year at most; some take a year off between births.
Lizards from the genus Cordylus. Angolan girdled lizard (Cordylus angolensis), also known as the Angolan spiny-tailed lizard; Black girdled lizard (Cordylus niger), restricted to Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula and a population near Langebaan; Cape Girdled Lizard (Cordylus cordylus), indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa
Tropical girdled lizards are not flattened like the true armadillo lizard (Ouroboros cataphractus) and do not grasp their tail and roll into a ball for defense. With gentle handling and plenty of hiding places, tropical girdled lizards become excellent, long-lived pets and can be trained to accept food from their owner’s hand. [citation needed]
On some individuals, the lines fuse into a black-bordered white stripe along the midline of the back. The Limpopo girdled lizard has a distinct dark dorsolateral stripe running from the head to the hips. The belly, throat, and lips are cream to yellow. The tail is very spiny and about 45% the total length of the animal.
The genus Cordylus (Sauria: Cordylidae) includes a wide variety of species of small to medium spiny lizards from Africa, collectively called girdle-tailed lizards or girdled lizards. All are diurnal and ovoviviparous (live-bearing, without shelled eggs).
The Fort Worth Zoo just released a record-breaking number of Texas horned lizards into their native habitat, zoo officials announced Tuesday in a press release.. In total, the zoo, in partnership ...
Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Cingulata is an order of armored placental mammals.Members of this order are called cingulates, or colloquially, armadillos.They are primarily found in South America, though the northern naked-tailed armadillo is found mainly in Central America and the nine-banded armadillo has a range extending into North America.
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