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Rare female lizards are ‘stress eating’ during flyovers at Colorado Army base: study

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Rare female lizards that reside around Colorado’s Fort Carson Army base are “stress eating” to cope with military aircraft fly-over noise, a new study has found.

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This lizard species stress-eats to cope with noisy US Army aircraft

Living in a neighborhood with lots of noise can make you jittery, especially if you're a lizard that's just a few inches long.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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This lizard species stress-eats to cope with noisy US Army aircraft

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Living in a neighborhood with lots of noise can make you jittery, especially if you’re a lizard that’s just a few inches long. It’s no wonder that lizards exposed to noise pollution from low-flying fighter jets have resorted to stress-eating. Colorado checkered whiptails (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus) — striped and patterned lizards that live only in southeastern Colorado — are an all-female species that reproduce asexuall…

1 year ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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The Hill

Rare female lizards are ‘stress eating’ during flyovers at Colorado Army base: study

Rare female lizards that reside around Colorado’s Fort Carson Army base are “stress eating” to cope with military aircraft fly-over noise, a new study has found.

1 year ago·Washington, United States

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Lizards at US Army installation are stress eating during flyovers, shows study

Lizards may be small, with only a single hearing bonelet compared to our three, and without earflaps, but their hearing is typically good. Most lizards can hear frequencies between 100 and 5,000 Hz (although they are most sensitive between 400 and 1,500 Hz), compared to between 20 and 20,000 Hz in humans. So how do lizards react to noise pollution?

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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Rare female lizards are ‘stress eating’ during flyovers at Colorado Army base: study

Rare female lizards that reside around Colorado’s Fort Carson Army base are “stress eating” to cope with military aircraft fly-over noise, a new study has found.

1 year ago·Springfield, United States

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