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A novel metaheuristic inspired by horned lizard defense tactics

open access: yesArtificial Intelligence Review
This paper introduces HLOA, a novel metaheuristic optimization algorithm that mathematically mimics crypsis, skin darkening or lightening, blood-squirting, and move-to-escape defense methods.
H. Peraza-Vázquez   +4 more
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Lizard man

Science, 2020
For Jonathan Losos, tiny Caribbean islands and their reptile inhabitants are test tubes of evolution.
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The Origin and Early Evolution of Sauria: Reassessing the Permian Saurian Fossil Record and the Timing of the Crocodile-Lizard Divergence

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Sauria is the crown-group of Diapsida and is subdivided into Lepidosauromorpha and Archosauromorpha, comprising a high percentage of the diversity of living and fossil tetrapods.
Torsten M Scheyer, Richard J Butler
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Lizard thermal trait variation at multiple scales: a review

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 2013
Susana Clusella-Trullas, Steven L Chown
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Lizards (Squamata)

2022
This chapter highlights lizards. It begins by looking at agamid lizards, including the Peter's rock agama, the Indo-Chinese Bloodsucker, the Variable Bloodsucker, and the Butterfly Lizard. Populations of the Peter's rock agama in the United States were derived from the pet trade and have been established in southern Florida since the mid-1980s ...
Walter E. Meshaka   +3 more
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A Braitenberg Lizard: Continuous Phonotaxis with a Lizard Ear Model

2009
The peripheral auditory system of a lizard is structured as a pressure difference receiver with strong broadband directional sensitivity. Previous work has demonstrated that this system can be implemented as a set of digital filters generated by considering the lumped-parameter model of the auditory system, and can be used successfully for step control
Shaikh, Danish   +3 more
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Wag the Lizard

Scientific American, 2017
The article focuses on leopard geckos in the highlands of Afghanistan that possess self-amputation ability, called autotomy, which allows them to shed their tail when attacked, and a study by biologist Kevin Jagnandan and others on how the gecko adapts to losing its tail by taking sprawled posture.
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Monogamy in lizards

Behavioural Processes, 2000
Monogamy is relatively rarely reported in taxa other than birds. The reproductive system of many lizard species appears to involve multiple mating partners for both the male and the female. However, short-term monogamous relationships have been reported in some lizard species, either where the male defends a territory that is only occupied by a single ...
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