Chuckwalla
Sauromalus ater · Reptile
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A plant-eating lizard up to half a metre of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, on old lava flows, rocky hillsides and outcrops, feeding on desert plants such as the flowers and leaves of creosote bush. It is about from spring to late summer and lies dormant through the cool months. When threatened it slips into a crevice and puffs up its lungs to wedge itself in; the native peoples of Death Valley ate it, hooking it out with a barbed bone point that pierced and deflated it.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, by day
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Sleeps through winter
Where it lives
Feeds on
Creosote Bush
Gives
Sources
- Tanya Schultz, Sauromalus ater (common chuckwalla). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2014.
- Common chuckwalla. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Sauromalus ater. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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