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Tuesday 12 april 2022

Aruba National Park Foundation:

Herpetologist Dr. Jeff Goessling studying local lizard known as Cododo

Meet herpetologist, re- ies: Cododos reach matu-
searcher and our friend rity by about 1 year of age,
Dr. Jeff Goessling, who has many live into their 2nd
been studying the Aruba year to reproduce, and
whiptail lizard (Cnemi- very few live past their 3rd
dophorus arubensis), birthday – which is surpris-
known locally as Cododo. ingly short when compared
to other desert species in,
Jeff marked the female for example, the USA. Male
Cododo in this image on 2 Cododos seem to have
July 2019, and she is so far one bright blue year during
the longest-living marked which they get eaten by
lizard Jeff has recaptured somebody bigger (bird or
out of hundreds having snake).
been marked. When Jeff
first started PIT tagging Jeff states that he is only
Cododos in 2017, he really just scratching the natural
had no idea about their life history surface on this fas-
history strategy. cinating lizard. The charis-
matic Cododo are largely
Would they live years, de- herbivorous and are them-
cades, or even longer? selves fascinated by peo-
Jeff’s research has been ple (they frequently wan-
uncovering some myster- der into Jeff’s backpack or

car to check out his equip- Cododos are ecologically tlesnake or Cascabel (Cro-
ment), and make eye con- critical in Aruba as they are talus unicolor) and several
tact and then ‘hand-wave’ the main prey base for the native birds, including Sho-
to signal they see you. endemic Aruba Island Rat- co and Warawara.q

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