{"id":2397,"date":"2025-11-21T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:00:38","slug":"gila-monster-out-and-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/lizards\/gila-monster-out-and-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Gila Monster Out and About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/lizards\/heloderma\/suspectum\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"437\">Gila Monster<\/a> out and about on a warm Spring day that I found a while back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, more than a decade ago, I knew relatively little about the day-to-day habits of these animals. Finding one was more a matter of luck than anything else. But, I&#8217;ve since learned a lot, and these are now often a higher observation count in a day than I&#8217;d had seen in an entire year.<\/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-_9569160325-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum-_9569160325-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum-_9569160325-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum-_9569160325-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum-_9569160325-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heloderma-suspectum-_9569160325-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended reading, if you can find it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards \u2014 Daniel D. Beck (UC Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gila Monster out and about on a warm Spring day that I found a while back. At that time, more than a decade ago, I knew relatively little about the day-to-day habits of these animals. Finding one was more a matter of luck than anything else. But, I&#8217;ve since learned a lot, and these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[325,137,437],"tags":[38,128,200],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heloderma","category-lizards","category-suspectum","tag-arizona","tag-gila","tag-maricopa-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}