#whiptail lizard

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Six-Lined Racerunner for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

The Six-Lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus) is a species of Whiptail Lizard (family Teiidae). Juveniles are known for having a blue-ish tail, which fades as they age. The species is named after the 6 yellow or green stipes found on the sides of the body, however one subspecies, the Prairie Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus viridis), has a 7th stripe. (x, x, x)

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Forest Whiptail (Kentropyx pelviceps), family Teiidae, Ecuador

photographs by Cristian Torica

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Western Mexico Whiptail Aspidoscelis costatus

Endemic to Mexico, including Guerrero, Morelos, and Puebla. They are non-territorial, active "widely foraging" lizards. They move quite frequently, and almost incessantly, in short gaits and at a frenetic pace. Foraging is their primary activity throughout the day. They are seen busy probing with their snouts under leaf-litter, in crevices, scratching in the ground, or digging furiously through piles of accumulated debris.

Least Concern

image by Francisco Xavier Delgado Moreno

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fun fact: there is a lesbian animal out there

the whiptail lizard

they are largely asexual and reproduce on their own, but they are an all-female species

and they may need other female lizards to help stimulate the production of eggs

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Plateau Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis velox). Family Teiidae, order Squamata.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. June 2024.

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💕Happy late valentines/ace week!!! 💕

This piece is a celebration of animals that can reproduce asexually in various ways. Under the readmore you can find a key to the species included and some information about how they reproduce.

These are very simplified definitions, if you're interested in this stuff definitely do more research and reading! The intricate details are really fascinating and specific to each animal- plants are even crazier!

Budding: a new individual develops then detaches from the parent when mature

Fragmentation: a new individual grows from a detached piece of the parent organism

Parthenogenesis: a new individual forms from an unfertilized egg

Facultative Parthenogenesis: the organism can reproduce sexually and/or asexually

Obligate Parthenogenesis: the organism can only reproduce through parthenogenesis

Gynogenesis: a form of obligate parthenogenesis that requires the presence of sperm without any actual genetic contribution

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Whiptail Lizard

Ben Schonewille / Getty Images

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Assigning the lgbt animals. This will possibly be a series if it catches on. Requests welcome (especially for agender, I'm so annoyed I couldn't get one for my own gender, but at this point any future ones will probably be vibe based)

Sexuality

Lesbian - New Mexico whiptail. Reason is that. ~ they are a all female species

Gay: - Penguin. Gay penguins are very reported

Bisexual - Mallard duck, I've seen things

Pansexual - Panda, self explanatory

~ Transgender

General - Shark, reason is blahaj

Transmasc - Lions, based on lionesses growing ___________manes occasionally

Transfem - Marsh Harrier. This was easily the hardest one, especially since the transmasc one was a lion. I will take requests for this one to make it more equal. I chose this because 40% of these birds "mimic" the female birds permanently

Non-binary - Bees. This is because bees essentially have three genders, drone (male), queen (female) and worker. (We love Barry B. Benson, Worker To Male icon)

Genderfluid - Clownfish, most Clownfish change sex multiple times throughout their life

Aro and Ace

Aro: Cats, cats don't show signs of romance

Ace: Komodo Dragons, a female komodo dragon once laid eggs despite never interacting with a male

Intersex

This is a hard one again, because so many animals can be intersex in some way or another, and basically all the animals in the trans section could probably be considered intersex. I have settled on goat because 3% - 10% of goats are intersex, which is high for mammals.

Sorry for the weird formatting. Tumblr for mobile is wild, if I do something like this again I will use a computer