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TEGU LIZARD Hello everyone! Have you ever come across a Tegu lizard in the city and wondered what its true role is in our urban environment? Well, today we're going to explore this fascinating world of Tegus, discover their feeding habits, their impact on urban areas, and their importance to the ecosystem. So, stay tuned until the end as we unravel this mystery together! Tegu lizards, from the Teiidae family and Tupinambis genus, have a fascinating evolutionary history dating back millions of years. Originating from South America, these reptiles have a long history of adaptation and diversification in different environments. Throughout their evolution, Tegus have developed a series of characteristics that have made them successful in their ecological niche. Their agile and robust body structure, for example, makes them excellent hunters and escape artists. Tegu lizards are the products of millions of years of adaptive evolution, resulting in a resilient and successful species capab...

URBAN REPTILES Surviving here is not easy. It takes a lot of resilience and foresight. You will also need strength, endurance and a lot of patience. The community doesn't care about you. It's every man for himself and the city against all. The same goes for animals that live in urban areas. If they don't take advantage of the city, it will consume them. Maybe you don't know, but the largest city in Latin America, São Paulo, is home to a large local urban fauna. In particular, a great diversity of reptiles, which can be found in all regions of the city. The natural remnants are fragmented and dispersed in the urban space, but still contain considerable populations of reptiles. Reptiles form the group made up of the turtles, crocodilians, tuataras, amphisbaenians, lizards and snakes. They are known as cold-blooded animals, or ectotherms, because their metabolism requires an increase in heat from the external environment, carried out through a process called thermoregulati...