Today I went to the Cerbat Mountains in Arizona and saw this reptile. This lizard is usually found in relatively open and sunny areas, often in the vicinity of pine trees. It is an alert, day active, fast-moving ground-dweller.

It forages for a variety of insects and spiders by rooting around in leaves under bushes and digging in the soil around the bases of rocks.

Whiptails have distinctive pointed heads and very long, whiplike tails.

Here’s a pretty crazy thing about these reptiles: All Gila Spotted Whiptails are female. Eggs are unfertilized and hatchlings are clones of the mother.

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