Posted on 03/30/2023 6:54:40 AM PDT by Twotone
Rare female lizards that reside around Colorado’s Fort Carson Army base are “stress eating” to cope with military aircraft fly-over noise, a new study has found.
These uncommon reptiles, called Colorado checkered whiptails, are engaging in compensatory feeding behaviors when low-flying Apache, Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters — and sometimes F-16 fighter jets — swoop over their habitat, according to the study, published on Wednesday in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science.
Lizards tend to have excellent hearing and are sensitive to much lower frequencies than humans are, the study authors explained.
Colorado checkered whiptails are members of a species considered “at risk” by the Army and “of special concern” by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the researchers noted. The species, which lives in shrubs along dry creek beds, consists exclusively of females who reproduce asexually.
As several populations of Colorado checkered whiptails inhabit the 212-square-mile tract of land that belongs to Fort Carson, the scientists coordinated with the U.S. Army to explore how these animals react to noise.
Army pilots flew over a 0.02-square-mile portion of the base known as “Training Area 55” at pre-selected times for three days in June 2021, after abstaining from doing so earlier in the week, according to the study.
During the flyover days, noise readings at ground level ranged from 33.9 to 112.2 decibels — what the authors described as “the sound level of an orchestra or a power saw.”
On non-flyover dates, noise levels hovered between 30.1 and 55.8 decibels, or about the range of a humming refrigerator, they explained.
The researchers observed the behavior of 82 lizards and then brought them in for weight measurements and blood tests, as well as ultrasounds to determine whether they were pregnant and the quantity and size of developing eggs, according to the study.
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I am more worried about the lizards in Ukraine that are stress eating because of a war precipitated by our military industrial complex there.
And how much money was wasted weighing lizards? They could have weighed Antony Fauci and saved a lot of money.
Obese lizard: The military makes me fat!!
212 sq miles ===135,680 acres.
WHO is demanding ‘research’ on lizards near a military base???
This is another attempt to bankrupt the USA.
I suspect whole reason for this so called study is to limit or even put a complete halt to the flying.
I also suspect the fed gov provided grant money for this fiasco of a study.....which was I’m sure will milked to the last penny.
Not to worry. Next week, it’ll be attributed to “climate change”. The week after that, it’ll be due to “lack of gun control”. And sooner or later, it’ll be because we’re not giving enough attention to tranny lizards. Not even close to kidding.
Or shut down the base
Lots of large corporations want that land. They’ll engage the econazi to get it.
But seriously, chit can these researchers and cut all their funding for wasting tax dollars on something so hideously inconsequential.
your tax dollars at work
Psychological stress on lizards because helicopters and jets are loud. We’ve needed lizard psychologists for a while. Too bad the best ones opt for gender studies and art appreciation.
I have this mental picture of a lizard sitting on the couch with a spoon and a carton of ice cream, binge watching some stupid TV show.
Did anybody else think this was about our reptilian alien overlords that the military is working with?
What do they do when it thunders?
Obesity in lizards. 😏
Call me when they stop the sounding test off of the New England coast for counter-productive windmill siting. Given that its killing whales.
The solution to this is obvious. Lizard ear muffs.
You mean some azhos were actually paid to study this? No wonder America has gone to hell.
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