{"id":2620,"date":"2016-03-12T23:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2016-03-12T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T04:31:51","slug":"mexican-beaded-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2016\/03\/12\/mexican-beaded-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Beaded Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican beaded lizard is a venomous lizard from Mexico that looks a lot like the closely related <a href=\"\/2014\/04\/14\/gila-monster\/\" title=\"Gila Monster\">gila monster<\/a>, except it has yellowish patches not pink ones.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2621\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2621\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2621\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican Beaded Lizards.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2621\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard-768x403.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mexican-Beaded-Lizard-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican beaded lizards (<em>Heloderma horridum<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In most respects the Mexican beaded lizard is a lot like a gila monster, similarly venomous, and harmless to humans if left alone.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the possibility of painful bites and the possibility of envenomation some people keep Mexican beaded lizards as pets, even breed them in captivity. If you can&#8217;t resist the temptation at least do yourself a favor and do not harass the animal. That seems to be a good way to get bitten.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaded_lizard\" title=\"Beaded lizard\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican beaded lizard<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helodermahorridum.com\/beaded_lizard.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Horridum Angeli - Beaded Lizards (Heloderma horridum)\">Horridum Angeli &#8211; Beaded Lizards (<em>Heloderma horridum<\/em>)<\/a><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican beaded lizard is a venomous lizard from Mexico that looks a lot like the closely related gila monster, except it has yellowish patches not pink ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,53,48,50,54,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}