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How can a lizard put a human to harm?

• The presence of Lizards in human houses and around in the premises can become a serious nuisance. The lizards contaminate the house and surroundings with their droppings, which in turn contains deadly bacteria. The lizard may also bite humans if they are afraid and this bite may infect the person with fatal bacteria.
• Humans may also prove to be allergic to the lizard. The direct or indirect contact with lizards may produce severe skin irritation, skin rashes or other skin problems. Persons may vomit and have other problems if the person consumes food or drink, contaminated by a lizard.

 

 

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• Controlling lizards is easy. First you should take away their food by doing a little pest control around the house. Next you should set out some repellent granules or repellent spray and lastly, consider setting out lizard traps if they’re inside the home.
• To capture lizards, Lizard control service in chennai is the best. we suggest laying out several glue traps around your home and before long, they will be caught.
• Monitor the presence of Lizards and any insects by laying out glue boards around entry points or noted areas of past activity.
• Lizards being a frequent issue is evidence that there is an insect problem around your home. Reduce lizard with Lazard control service in chennai.
• Mosquito repellent liquid
• Clean the cabinets under the sink
• Lower the room temperature
• Remove fruits and plotted plants.

Lizard control can effectively be done by using powerful lizard repellents, or lizard killer pesticides. Lizard control service with pest control service chennai using various methods to eliminate home lizards.

The tale of a lizard’s stripes and colourful tail

The black and white stripes of a zebra may be attractive to us, but did you know they evolved so to confuse predators?  Called ‘motion dazzle’, the lines make it hard for the predator, to judge the speed and direction of the moving prey. This strategy was also used during World War I where navy ships were painted with black and white patterns to avoid being attacked by torpedo missiles from submarines. In a recent study, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) and the University of Turku, Finland, have studied the motion dazzle effect in lizards. The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, is one of the first to use data from real animals to understand this phenomenon and its evolutionary significance.

Some lizards, like Eutropis bibronii—a species of skink from India—have longitudinal body stripes, and Lygosoma punctata—a common species of skink found in parts of South and Southeast Asia—have both longitudinal stripes and a colourful tail. Previous studies have shown that body stripes and striking colouration on the tail deflect predators to attack the tail instead of the body, giving a chance for the lizard to escape.

Tale’s of Lizard’s

“In some lizards, the tail can be lost and regrown, the stripes on the body might create an illusion in such a way that the predator ends up catching the tail instead of the main body during motion”, says Gopal Murali from IISER-TVM, who is the lead author of the study. The study was funded by the Department of Science and Technology and IISER-TVM.

The researchers of the current study started with several hypotheses of correlations between the colour patterns and ecological traits of lizards based on the principle of motion dazzle (for stripes) and attack deflection (for colorful tail). They tested these hypotheses by analysing nearly 8000 lizard photos from over 1600 different species.

The researchers found that striped species of lizards, like Eutropis bibronii, had a higher body temperature than those without stripes. The mobility of ectothermic animals—animals that cannot regulate their body temperature—depends on their body temperature. Thus, lizards with longitudinal stripes and higher body temperature have higher mobility and can rapidly escape from predators.

Interestingly, the study also found that both body stripes and colourful tails are associated with diurnal behaviour, where the lizards are active during the daytime. This association could be because the colourations may be ineffective in the dark against predators that rely on sight. The researchers suggest that body stripes and colourful tails likely evolved in lizards that are active during the day.

Past climate changes helped diversification of lizards in India, fossils show

Climate change has always been a major driver that has shaped our planet’s biodiversity. Massive extinctions and severe adaptations are all a result of climate change. As we start to understand how the current change in climate is impacting us, effects of previous climate changes are hardly understood. In a rare study combining biology and paleontology, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have shown how different climatic factors, present millions of years ago, have influenced the evolution of fan-throated lizards.

Fan-throated lizards (FTL) is a kind of agama found in India. Males of this species have an extendable dewlap or fan which is brightly coloured in some species. Until a few years ago, researchers thought that a single species of the genus Sitana, was present throughout the country. However, with increased efforts, 10 more species of Sitana and three more species of a new genus Sarada, were found over time. The study attributes this observed diversity to the onset of monsoon and subsequent aridification during the Miocene epoch–a geological period spanning from 23 million to 5.3 million years ago.

The researchers used genetic data of fan-throated lizards sampled from different regions where they were found. They then used tools to tell apart two or more distinct species tagged as a single species due to similarities in their looks and body characteristics. In their molecular dating they used five fossils and sequences of the different Fan-throated lizard species trying to understand the time at which different diversifications were observed.

“Molecular dating is a very useful tool if one understands the underlying principles. Typically, biologists rely on the information provided by paleontologists about the fossils. When paleontologists describe a fossil, they also estimate its age and the error associated with this number. Based on the morphological description of the fossil, paleontologists and neontologists (those who study living organisms as opposed to fossils) identify to which extant group (genus, family, subfamily) the fossils are related to. Given this information, a particular fossil can be placed in the molecular phylogeny to estimate the dates for the related species group of our interest”, informs Dr. Deepak about the methods used in this study.

In total, the team identified 15 species of fan-throated lizards, and discovered five potential new species of Sitana, and one new species of Sarada. They also found that the dry zone species of the Sarada–Sitana group diverged from the Sri Lankan wet zone sister genus Otocryptis at around 26 million years ago during early Miocene. Sitana and Sarada evolved as separate genera around 18 million years ago during mid-Miocene, which corresponds to the establishment of monsoon. During the late Miocene, around 11 million years ago, there was an increase in open habitats and a decline in rainforest habitats, with the initiation of aridification in South Asia. This helped Sarada and Sitana to further diversify into the present delimited species