is house lizards also drink water? if yes from where they get it?
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I have no idea what you are asking, but I will answer this question...Do lizards around the house drink water, and if so, where do they get it?"\n\nYes they drink water...and they most likely get it from their food and dew on grass and leaves.
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youl need a tank, a strip light that emits vitamin d and a 60 watt bulb. some reptile shops may sell u a second hand vivarium.
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since lizards are ectotherms i.e. cannot control their temperature via a special biological mechanism they must rely on behavioural temperature regulation.\nLizards bask in the sun when their body temperature is too low and seek shade when it is to high. Whilst in the sun all reptiles must be extra cautious since their temperature increases in a number of ways: apart from the obvious amount of radiation from the sun giving them heat directly, this has another effect as well, the increased temperature causes the enzymes that control their metabolism to work more efficiently metabolising faster and generating more heat from chemical reactions.\nReptiles generally suffer from generating heat faster than they can get rid of it so they must constantly change surroundings
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Birds have one, snakes have one, and i believe a few of the lizards only have one.
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Snakes lost their legs on land, not in the sea as previous scientists thought, according to new research by professor of biology S. Blair Hedges and postdoctoral fellow Nicolas Vidal.\n\n"Everyone agrees that snakes evolved from lizards and are close relatives to lizards," Hedges said. "What is controversial is the specific group, whether on the land or in the sea."\n\nScientists estimate that snakes evolved 150 million years ago, Vidal said. For many years, they believed in the terrestrial or land theory, which says that snakes evolved from lizards that burrowed underground.\n\nThen, seven years ago, the discovery of a fossilized marine snake with tiny hind legs fueled the marine hypothesis that snakes lost their legs in the sea. The marine snakes called mosasaurs are now extinct, but their closest cousins, the monitor lizards such as the Komodo Dragon, are still alive today.\n\nHedges and Vidal chose two genes and compared them in lizards and snakes to see how closely they are related. From statistical analysis of these gene sequences, they created a family tree.\n\n"These two genes have accumulated different mutations in the different species," Vidal said. "These differences between the species are used to build the evolutionary trees. Snakes are not closely related to the monitor lizards, which means that they cannot have marine origins."\n\nHedges and Vidal's research is significant because of the comprehensive scope of the snakes and lizards studied. They collected DNA from 64 species representing all 19 families of living lizards and 17 of the 25 families of living snakes, Vidal said.\n\n"We mostly acquired DNA from the soft tissues, blood, shed skin, scales and tips of the tails of the animals," he said. "A very small amount is needed, so we can get the sample without killing the animal."\n\nHedges and Vidal acquired samples from other colleagues, their own collections, fieldwork in South America and pet stores that trade exotic animals, Hedges said.\n\nSome of the samples were difficult to acquire because some snakes and lizards are limited to certain parts of the world, such as remote islands, but it was crucial to their study.\n\n"We felt it was important to analyze genes from all the lizard groups, because almost every lizard family has been suggested as being the one most closely related to snakes," Hedges said. "If we had failed to include genes from even one of the lizard families, we could have missed getting the right answer."\n\nA possible theory to explain why snakes dropped their legs on land is that limbs are not conducive to their burrowing habits, Vidal said.\n\n"The idea is that if you have limbs sticking out, it's difficult to get into small openings," Hedges said. "It's more advantageous, because it enables snakes to get more food and offers safety from predators."\n\nHedges and Vidal did not find the closest lizard relative to snakes, but they did succeed in eliminating the monitor and marine lizards as possibilities.\n\n"This study doesn't answer all the questions," Hedges said. "In most fields, questions aren't answered all at once. They're answered in increments, and in this study, we've ruled out the marine theory, but that still leaves a lot of possibilities."\n\nHedges and Vidal said they hope to find the closest relative to snakes in the next year.\n\n"The work by Dr. Hedges and Dr. Vidal is a tremendous contribution to the body of knowledge," said Bryan Fry, deputy director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne in Australia. "Their data provides strong evidence for the terrestrial loss of limbs."
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Snakes, like other reptiles, are built around moisture conservation. Most snakes and lizards don't even pee, let alone sweat! They excrete their uric acid in a solid pellet. If they sweated, they would have to top up on moisture, which would be difficult and dangerous for many species. By not having to drink free-standing water, reptiles are able to occupy some of the driest environments on earth. As has been pointed out, most reptiles are what are called "shuttling heliotherms", moving in and out of the sun to maintain a constant body temperature. Sankes, having a large surface area in relation to their mass, tend to heat up more quickly than lizards. They can absorb heat through the ground as well, which is called being "thigmothermic" -which makes one wonder if they get warm by beating up other reptiles they would be "thugmothermic" ;-). \n\nSnakes shed their skin periodically and for a variety of reasons- not only to allow them to grow, but also if they have any sort of parasites. It is only the outermost layer of the skin that is shed, but there is usually a little bit of pigment in the shed skin and this often allows the  pattern, although not the colour of the snake that shed the skin to be ascertained. Humans shed their skin too, we call it dandruff. Most household dust is shed skin of people.
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lizards = frogs\nfrogs = lizards
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Reptiles breath through thier skin.
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most of their water or moisture comes from the dead bodies they consume.  They may also drink from lakes, streams, ponds, rivers, etc.
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The lizard is fed nutrients through a connection with the yolk on the egg. It is given air through small holes in the egg shell. The shell also protects the lizard from outside disease and physical harm.
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yes.\n\nthey are mammals and do not breathe underwater.\n\nthey take in air at the surface, so it does not matter what type of water they live in.
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dear friend,\nthere isn't anything perfect that can get you rid of those lizards.\nyou can use the following tips:\n\n1) lizards come for food which are flies and mosquitoes. keep them away from your house by closing the doors and windows in the evening.\n2)clean your house atleast once a week, destroy the eggs of the lizrds laid inside the switch boards,clocks, picture frames, etc.\n3)there are many lizard repellents like laxman rekha'... use any of them.\n4) it is firmly believed that a peacock's feathers drive away lizards. stick a few peacock feathers on the walls in a decorative manner, so that they can add the beauty of your home.\n\nhope all this tips might be useful for you.
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NO they dont drink water as such. they get water from the food they eat. as we know we see ants going around some sweet drinks or some kinda sugar cubes. all these contains water and so ants dont need extra water. Not only ants but there are many organisms which do not drink water for their entire life.
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The ones that squirt water.
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Most amphibians eat insects, however their are alos species that prey primarily on fish, crustations and even mammals. \n\nCrocodiles are NOT amphibians. Thay are amphibious which is quite a different thing.
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Yes, absolutely, snakes do piss urine. How do I know, you ask?!!?\n\nBecause I've owned one and I've seen it happen many times but only under the freakiest of moments and circumstances!\n\nThe snake I owned was a rock cobra, a particularly nasty and active snake who'd eat one mouse every day or more while most pet-shop cobras are much more inactive and eat only a mouse every few days, by strangling the mouse to death and then opening up its jaws swallowing it down whole.\n\nA large number of snake species regurgitiate and cough up parts of the prey it can't digest, bones, hair etc. which is what my snake did and which left me to believe that that was ALL the waste material the snake was going to produce. \n\nThis snake was particularly ornery and hated to be touched or moved around. \n\nOne day as my brother and I took the snake out of its cage it began to shake and coil itself away from us as we both held on to it as tightly as possible.\n\nThe snake then did something that literally scared and shocked the both of us into letting the snake go which we did but caught before it slithered away.\n\nThe snake in trying to frighten us to letting it go, began pissing and defecating all over in all directions! Now, if you don't expect an animal to defecate or urinate and all of a sudden it does those very things you NEVER EXPECTED, you will certainly be startled by it. \n\nThis happened many many times whenever we handled the snake and as it tried to scare us into letting it go. It was the only times I've ever seen a snake urinate or defecate, ever!!  True story.
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"Variation in Diet\nAlthough helodermatid lizards are specialists on vertebrate nests, they appear to be generalists regarding the kinds of nests they exploit.\nA diversity of prey species and sizes has been documented in the diets of Beaded Lizards and Gila Monsters.  Although some of these prey items are relatively small lizard and snake eggs, others, such as quail nets and nestling rabbits, are large and provice substantial energy gains per food item.  A meal of cottontail nestlings can weigh over one-third the mass of an adult Gila Monster and provide nearly one-third of a Gila Monster's annual energy budget (Beck 1990; chap. 4).  Along with these energy benefits come the basic mechanical challenges of swallowing a large meal or a hard-shelled egg.  Egg-eating snakes of the genera Dasypeltis and Elachistodon have modifications of the jaws, teeth, skull, and even the vertebrae that allow them to efficiently swallow eggs (Gans 1974). Although helodermatid lizards are not so specialized, they do appear to use a few "tricks" to make eggs go down easier.\n\nFeeding Behavior\nHow Prey are Eaten\nHerrel et al. (1997) describe five stages of H. horridum eating quail eggs: approach, pierce, uptake, crush, and swallow.  A Beaded Lizard first locates the egg, both visually and by tongue-flicking, then rises on its front legs and bites the egg with its front teeth, piercing it without breaking it.  The piercing bite may be repeated several times, yet the egg remains intact.  During the uptake phase, the lizard maneuvers its jaws around the egg by either flicking the egg in the air or pushing it against an object or the ground.  The tongue aids in maneuvering the food object into the oral cavity, but the primary force used during the uptake phase is inertia generated by movements of the lizard's head, neck, and jaws.  Such a feeding mechanism, called inertial feeding, contrasts with lingual feeding mechanisms (using the tongue to deliver food objects into the mouth) shown by most other lizards (Gans 1969)..."\n\nNot information about the actual digestive system, but information about diet and feeding.  This is an excerpt from Daniel D. Beck's new book.\n\nLet me know if you want a photo of a Gila Monster!