Anything about Anza Borrego that does not fit into one of the other forums.
Chuckwalla?
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tekewin Posts: 385
18 days ago
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I saw this guy hiding in a crack in some rocks. At first, I thought this is too big to be a lizard. Is it a snake? No, it looks like a chuckwalla.
What do you think?
I found him on Lizard Peak (aka peak 2865), an unofficial peakbagger peak. I climbed it from Stag Cove off Highway 78.
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dtoujours Posts: 32
15 days ago
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The Seek app from iNaturalist agrees with your assessment it's a Chuckwalla. It's really crammed in there!
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tekewin Posts: 385
14 days ago
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Thanks for the confirmation. First chuckwalla I've ever seen in A-B.
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dtoujours Posts: 32
4 days ago
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A lot of chuckwalla lizards have loose skin around their abdomen and so they can squeeze into a rock crack and inflate that loose skin and it makes it almost impossible for a predator to remove them. So, I wonder if the lizard you saw had inflated its skin.
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