Chuckwalla in my wheel
 

Went out to run some errands and found a chuckwalla lizard hanging out under my car. After my wife took a picture I got in and started the engine. Figured he'd run away when the engine started. But, we never saw him run. My wife suggested I look under the hood. Nope, not on the engine tray. As I was about to drive off she said, "What about in the wheel?" I got out and checked... peek a boo. In the shadows of the wheel he was pretty much invisible.

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Don't wound it, it'll turn vicious and attack!!!

dude.... a stick? grab that little guy with your hand!

But he drives a mini-van.

oh. right.

that's one UGLY kritter - looks like a tiny Kimoto Dragon

take him for a spin.

thats one of my KINFOLK! be nice to him.

Yeah, my neighbor had a chuckwalla in his back yard. I saw it latch on to the stick he was using to nudge it along. They get mean when they're cornered.

Mazda 5s are cool.

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i had a couple of those little buggers as pets. i handled them all the time. then i returned them to where i found them.

Very cool lizard!

Cool little buggers. Iguana family... no way can they be as mean as something like a tokay gecko.

Yeah, right. Last time I reached in an open wheel like that I got cut up by the brake rotor. I've had 3 cars that did that regularly as I used to like to wash the area of the wheel behind the spokes.

Dumb ass me finally learned to not stick my hand in there.

huh. i've never been cut by a wheel rotor, but i can see how it might get pretty sharp. point taken.

wonder if those things have a toxic bite?

It's likely they spread salmonella - I know iguanas do.

Just don't kiss it! :p

That ad...you'd never see anything that awesome in the US -