Asexual lizards stressed by military overeating to cope.
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"Here we show that noise disturbance does have measurable physiological impacts on Colorado checkered whiptails," study lead Megen Kepas, a doctoral student at Utah State University, said in a The whiptail community — of which every single critter is an asexually-reproducing female — arguably deserves a little more respect from the area's military body, considering that the US Army, according to the press release, has the lady lizards listed as a "species at risk."
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