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Reptiles

Any of various cold-blooded, usually egg-laying vertebrates of the class Reptilia,that have an external covering of scales or horny plates and breathe by means of lungs.

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Cloaca

Animals; Reptiles

A body opening that serves both for excretion and for the reproductive organs.

Clutch

Animals; Reptiles

The eggs laid by a female reptile at one nesting.

Clutch-mate

Animals; Reptiles

Individuals who hatched from the same clutch of eggs.

Coccidia

Animals; Reptiles

A single cell organism that can infest your reptiles (or other pets) intestines. Its a microscopic parasite that may cause watery stools, bloody stools, or extremely smelly stools. This is very ...

Cold blooded

Animals; Reptiles

An animal that cannot regulate its own body temperature, rather it's regulated by the environment, so they often bask for heat, burrow, and hibernate. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals.

Colubrid

Animals; Reptiles

Any of numerous, widely distributed, chiefly nonvenomous snakes of the family Colubridae, which includes the king snakes, garter snakes, and water snakes.

Constricting

Animals; Reptiles

The method, which many snakes utilise to kill their prey by wrapping themselves around and tightening until the meal is dead.

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