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When Lizards Do Push-Ups.(lizard communication through body movement)
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February 27, 1999|
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Humans aren't the only ones inclined to athletic displays in love and war
Lizards don't sing. Instead, they do push-ups.
Much as birds chirp their threats and come-ons and commentaries, sagebrush lizards in the western United States communicate through little flex fests. Both male and female lizards rise off their bellies and bob up and down, quick as a recruit slamming into the ground at the feet of a bellowing marine sergeant.
During the past decade, Emilia P. Martins of the University of Oregon in Eugene has led a search to decode sagebrush ...
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