September 25, 2011  I am writing with a short but very important update. Yesterday Gilberto saw a pair of Beaded Lizards copulating in one of the enclosures.

By: Brad Lock, Assistant Curator of Herpetology at Zoo Atlanta

The Guatemalan beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti) has not been formally Red listed as a subspecies, but is clearly critically endangered with an estimated 100-to-200 individuals remaining in its dry forest habitat, the size of a Texas cattle ranch, surrounded by unsuitable terrain.

The Center for North American Herpetology, Lawrence, Kansas
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