Texas Fauna Project

Texas Horned Lizard

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Bill Brooks is a naturalist and former staff member of the Biopsychology Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been interested in horned lizards for many years, serving as both national and Texas president of the Horned Lizard Conservation Society. Here he tells the story of Old Rip, perhaps the longest-lived, but certainly the most famous horned lizard known.