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  • Female lizards at Colorado Army base are ‘stress eating’ during flyovers: study

    03/30/2023 6:54:40 AM PDT · by Twotone · 38 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 29, 2023 | Sharon Udasin
    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...