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Suprising Mexican Animals

Suprising Mexican Animals. By: Courtney Mueller. Eyelash Viper.

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Suprising Mexican Animals

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  1. Suprising Mexican Animals By: Courtney Mueller

  2. Eyelash Viper This is a highly venomous, 3-foot long pit viper. It eats tree frogs, lizards and mice. If you were to look one in the eye, you would see vertical pupils and several spiny scales sticking out over each small eye, giving it "eyelashes“.

  3. Mexicancaecilian The Mexican caecilian snake looks a lot like a 2-foot-long earthworm. Like earthworms, caecilians spend much of their lives underground and they surfacing at night during rains. Unlike worms, they have tiny retractable tentacles and give birth to live young.

  4. Stripedbasilisk The Striped basilisk lizard has yellow racing stripes down the length of its brown body. It has a slim body and long legs. The basilisk's can run across the surface of water on its hind legs. It grows to about 32 inches long and lives along streams and other bodies of water.

  5. Pauraque White bands flash on there wings while they are in flight. They are the closest relative to owls and they are 11 inches long. They are also nocturnal.

  6. Paca A pace is 2.5 feet long and is Mexico's rodent king. It burrows in rain forests, mangrove swamps, drier areas close to water and even in tree thickets in public parks. It has a squirrel-like head, delicate feet and brown fur speckled with white spots. The paca loves to eat yams, sugarcane, corn, etc.

  7. Violaceoustrogon The violaceous trogon has a dark violet-blue head, greenish yellow rings around its eyes, yellow breast, a green back and black and white tail. They live in deep-forest tree canopies but also frequent clearings, forest edges and tree plantations near streams and rivers.

  8. Cacomistle The cacomistle has family ties to the exotic kinkajou and the common raccoon. It has a pointy-nosed, its cat-like head has a dark mask surrounding yellowish-white rings around its eyes. A dark stripe runs down its tawny, densely furred body to a bushy, ringed tail.

  9. Bibliography • http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-10-10/travel/17263721_1_basilisk-forests-caecilian

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