Gila+Monster

===** My animal lives in the desert. The deserts average temperature is 100 degrees F. The total rainfall is 10 inches per year. The landforms that are in the area are plateaus, mountains and isthmus. The plant life has a hole bunch of different type of cacti old mam cacti and organ pine are a couple. Animal life toads, lizards, birds, snakes, spiders, scorpion, and mammals. My animal is the Gila Monster its scientific name is //helodrema suspectum//. The Gila Monster is a vertabrate and it belongs to the reptile family. The Gila Monster can be 18 to 24 in tall and smaller than that. They weight up to five pounds. They have a stout body, black orange spots, or pink and yellow, and broken blotches. Its adaptations are it uses its posion for protection from other predators, and it also uses its poison for food. It gets there water from their food. They live under rocks or burrows of other animals. There food chain is, insects to small mammals to gila monster. They eat other small mammals and insects. Some interesting facts are its the only poisonous lizard on earth, they our found mostly in the united states in the western part if the US and the southern part. **===