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The common chuckwalla, as seen on the Channel Islands Restoration national history tour of Death Valley National Park. The chuckwalla is a large lizard, related to iguanas, that is found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They can be more than 15 inches long, and the one pictured in this short clip was nearly that length.

They are primarily herbivorous, and feed on leaves, fruit, and flowers of plants, supplemented by insects. They seem to prefer yellow flowers, like brittlebush (Encelia farinosa). Chuckwallas are harmless to humans, and are known to run from potential threats and entrench themselves into tight rock crevices by inflating their lungs.