Gila Monster

    The Gila Monster live in the Southwestern North America excepting most of the California. Its diet includes eggs of ground-nesting birds and reptiles, baby birds, squirrels, rabbits, rodents and small lizards. Owls, hawks, coyotes, and foxes may prey the young Gila Monster, but most animals stay away from adults. The Gila Monster has a large, heavy bodied lizards, black with pink or orange markings and bead-like scales. They have massive, flat heads with blunt snouts and short, stubby legs and tails. The bulges on the sides of their heads give a triangular shape like a rattlesnake, but these are powerful jaw muscles, not venom glands. The full-length of Gila Monster is about 38-58 cm. The most special is that the Gila Monster has Venom glands. Its are located along the lower jaw and venom is not injected but emitted through pores at the outside base of the teeth and chewed into the wound with sharp, grooved teeth.

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