At the end of last summer, one of the farmers in the Adopt-A-Farmer project that was studying our Short-horned lizards brought two horny toads to our teachers. We are 2nd graders at Waterville Elementary. We kept the lizards in a glass aquarium with dirt, rocks, water, a stick and a little bit of sand. We used a heat rock to keep the toads warm because they are cold-blooded. We put a light on top to be the sun and to keep them warm.
We found out that the Short-horned lizards like to eat small grasshoppers and large worms the best. They HATE large grasshoppers and slugs. The large grasshoppers just died, and the slugs crawled under the rocks, under the water dish, and up the sides of the glass.
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When it started getting cold outside (about the first of November) we put the toads in the closet in their aquarium to hibernate. It is dark, spooky, and cold in the closet. We didn't do anything to the toads while they were in the closet.
Then we had helped the 4/5 graders with the
Over Wintering Project to see what the lizards do over the winter.
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