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When disturbed, a chuckwalla wedges itself into a tight rock crevice and inflates its lungs to entrench itself. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Males are seasonally and conditionally territorial; an abundance of resources tends to create a hierarchy based on size, with one large male dominating the area's smaller males. [ 5 ]
Chuckwalla National Monument is a national monument in the Colorado Desert of Southern California that protects 624,270 acres (2,526.3 km 2) of desert habitat in Riverside and Imperial counties from development. [1] [2] The monument spans several mountain ranges between Joshua Tree National Park and the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range.
Sauromalus ater, also known as the common chuckwalla or northern chuckwalla, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. [2] [3] It inhabits the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends from eastern California, Utah, and Nevada south to Baja California and Sonora. [4]
Chuckwalla, a genus of lizards found in southwestern United States and northern Mexico Angel Island chuckwalla, a species of chuckwalla; Spotted chuckwalla (alt. Catalina Island chuckwalla), a species of chuckwalla; Peninsular chuckwalla, species of chuckwalla; San Esteban chuckwalla, a species of chuckwalla
The Angel Island chuckwalla is the second-largest species of chuckwalla, reaching 44 cm (17 in) in body length and 64 cm (25 in) overall length, and weighing up to 1.4 kg (3.1 lb). [5] It is considered a gigantic species as it is two to three times the size of its mainland counterparts.
The Chuckwalla Valley is a large valley in eastern Riverside County, California, named for a large lizard, the chuckwalla found in the arid Southwestern United States deserts. The region of the valley in southeast California , is the low elevation section of the Mojave Desert transitioning into the Colorado Desert , the northwest extension (in ...
The Chuckwalla Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, rise like an island from a vast sea of sand and rock; within the walls of this "rock fortress" is a variety of landforms, textures, and colors. They include steep-walled canyons, inland valleys, large and small washes, isolated rock outcrops, and panoramic expanses of desert.
Sauromalus klauberi, commonly called the Catalina chuckwalla or the spotted chuckwalla, is a species of chuckwalla, a lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is endemic to Mexico [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The species was first described in 1941.