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Gila Monster
Pronounced [ HEE-LA ]
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Map & range not to any scale.
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Gila Monsters can get up to 2 feet long. Primarily nocturnal.
They & the Mexican Beaded lizards are the only venomous lizards.
They do not inject their venom as a snake does but rather it gets into the wound from the Gila Monsters mouth as it bites.
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New images as of 07/11/06
Taken at Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
Superior, Arizona.
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I was walking across a grass area when I happen to notice the grass moving ahead of me.
In this type of a situation I always am looking down. In Arizona you never know what's in the grass.
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As it moved out the dense foliage I could see it a very large Gila Monster.
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As I moved it turned and headed towards me.
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It now has my undivided attention. Maybe it just wants to get to know me better.
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Am trying to skirt around it in order to get behind it once more.
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Using a more powerful lens I can show its color pattern better.
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Yep; I know he's still out there some where photographing me.
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Just thought you might like to see its leg and foot up close.
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