Endangered Horned Lizards hatch at San Antonio Zoo — and get some help from dogs
The zoo has paired sets of horned lizards to encourage breeding, then carefully hatch the eggs.
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The zoo has paired sets of horned lizards to encourage breeding, then carefully hatch the eggs.
The Horned Lizard Conservation Society, a nonprofit that sponsors scientific research on the critters, started in 1991. Speaking at one of its first meetings was Wade Sherbrooke, the former director of the Southwest Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History in Arizona. He was moved by people’s passion about the creatures he’d studied for more than 40 years. Advertisement “Some old rancher would get up and say, ‘We had horny toads and we should have them again! Ice cream cones and horny toads, that’s what life’s all about!’” he recalled. But the lizard’s de...