Tegu Lizards Get Body Heat Boost During Mating Season (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Tegu Lizards Get Body Heat Boost During Mating Season (3 of 5)

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A thermal image of a tegu lizard taken at 6 a.m. inside its burrow. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 22, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.J. Tattersall at National Institute of Science and Technology in Comparative Physiology (INCT-Fisiologia Comparada) in Rio Claro, Brazil, and colleagues was titled, 'Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards.'

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[Credit: Glenn J. Tattersall]

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