New Mexico Sex Lizard Research Paper

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Before I start typing this information about this lizard. I would like to give Morgan Phillips a shoutout for showing me this animal :) The leaping lesbian lizard is another name for the New Mexico Whiptail lizard. This lizard was produced through interbreeding of two native species of lizard. This lizard lives in southern United States and northern Mexico. The lizard lives in two states, New Mexico and Arizona. The leaping lesbian lizard is the state reptile of New Mexico. The lizard has two different ways of reproduction. The lizard is a hybrid species between the little striped whiptail and the western whiptail. Females reproduce using parthenogenesis ( a type of asexual reproduction.) They also reproduce through hybridization. These two

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