{"id":2206,"date":"2025-08-18T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:37:37","slug":"gila-monster-in-the-grassland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/lizards\/gila-monster-in-the-grassland\/","title":{"rendered":"Gila Monster In The Grassland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spotted this young <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/lizards\/heloderma\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"325\">Gila Monster<\/a> on an isolated rocky area surrounded by desert grassland. Gilas in this area can often have more black mottling than the banded version found elsewhere in the state. We took some photos briefly and let it be on its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum_7146-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this young Gila Monster on an isolated rocky area surrounded by desert grassland. Gilas in this area can often have more black mottling than the banded version found elsewhere in the state. We took some photos briefly and let it be on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[325,137,437],"tags":[127,191,557],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heloderma","category-lizards","category-suspectum","tag-gila-monster","tag-cochise-county","tag-grassland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}