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<\/a>Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum<\/em>) sleeping. Toronto Zoo<\/a>, Americas exhibit.<\/p><\/div>\n Even though gila monsters are venomous they move so slowly that they pose very little danger to humans. Other people for some strange reason believe that gila monsters make a good pet and keep one. While they are beautiful animals they don’t particularly like interacting with humans and they do bite — which is not much fun when your pet has venom on its teeth. In fact gila monster bites can be life threatening.<\/p>\n Gila monsters use their tails to store fat, just like a camel<\/a> stores fat in its hump so that they can survive for a while when food is not available.<\/p>\n Further Readings: The gila mosntar is a venomous lizard native to the south-western United States and the northern part of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,53,50,54,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey are protected in the United States yet people kill them, mostly out of sheer ignorance.<\/p>\n
\nReticulate gila monster<\/a> on the Toronto Zoo website.
\nGila monster<\/a> on Arkive.
\nGila monster<\/a> on Discover Southeast Arizona.
\nGila monster<\/a> on A-Z animals.
\nAs a pet: Gila Monster Captive Care and Breeding<\/a>.
\nWhat to do<\/a> when a gila monster bites you.
\nGila monster<\/a> on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"