Rainbow Whiptail

Tüpfelrennechse ( Cnemidophorus lemniscatus )

The Tüpfelrennechse ( Cnemidophorus lemniscatus ) is a lizard and belongs to the family of the rail lizards ( Teiidae ).

It occurs in central and southern North America, where it inhabited lowlands and forest clearings in flood. The living mostly on the ground lizard reaches a size of about 30 centimeters. In their search for food she climbs sometimes on shrubs.

The very agile lizard is on short distances at 24 to 28 km / h the fastest lizards in the world. In their spurts they sometimes run on their hind legs.

Reproduction

The male sits on the female and bites it in the neck. Then it curves around the body of the female, and it comes to mating. The four to six eggs hatch in eight to ten weeks the pups.