It is a 2,000 pound creature who is in rut.

If a predator tries to take it by the body, the lizard drives that side of its body down into the ground so the predator cannot easily get its lower jaw underneath.

Cordylus cataphractus ), also known as the armadillo lizard, golden armadillo lizard or armadillo spiny tailed lizard, is a girdled lizard endemic to desert areas along the western coast of South Africa.

Indeed, prior to the vote earlier this month, Nigeria had settled into a rut of electoral authoritarianism.

When they're in rut they're similar to seals in the way, like, a seal has to open its nose to breathe.

Colombia is the country with more endemic species of butterflies, number 1 in terms of orchid species and approximately 7,000 species of beetles.

The essential principle is that the media should not be allowed to pander to the public s prurience under cover of protecting the public interest.

But boredom with life in what she called this fur lined rut brought her back to Washington, D.C. for increasingly long periods, and she made her final home there in 1983.

Brown intended this name in the same sense as the medical term ankylosis, to refer to the stiffness produced by the fusion of many bones in the skull and body, so the name is often translated as 'stiffened lizard.

The document used the new Brazilian Federal Law definition of rape from 2009 to coerce somebody, through violence or serious threat, to have a sexual relations, or to practice or to allow them to practice any other libidinous act (which includes non penetration acts).

At the same time, it is widely acknowledged (except by most editors and journalists) that a great deal of media intrusion is simply an abuse of press freedom, with the sole aim of boosting circulation by feeding public prurience.