These physical traits make it extremely difficult and quite awkward for predators to attack it while it is curled up in it’s defensive position.ĭefensive position? You mean it is not just showing off some pretty incredible feats of flexibility? But to some, it looks like a little dinosaur with skin that is covered with protective scales along its back and spines on the neck and tail. Growing to an average length between 6 and 8 inches, it is certainly not a monster in the reptile world. Although some of you might know it as the Typical Girdled Lizard, or the Armadillo Spiny-Tailed Lizard … or for the budding herpetologists out there, Cordylus cataphractus.
If you ever find yourself wandering throughout the desert of South Africa, you might just come across this fascinating lizard.
Is that lizard eating its own tail? Nope … not quite! Allow me to introduce the amazing (and incredibly creative) defensive technique of the Armadillo girdled lizard!
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