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Eastern Fence Lizards Summary

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Dr. Sheriff performed a research on how ecological stressor such as climate change can affect animal behaviour and physiology. During his research, he did an experiment using the Eastern Fence Lizards who are known to live in dry areas. The Eastern Fence Lizards is as genus of Sceloporus is mostly found from New York south to northern Florida and as far west as Ohio and Arkansas. These lizards live in a number of habitats including woodlands, grasslands, and shrublands but they usually stick to areas with trees. Glucocorticoids has a big impact on animal population, fitness and performance. In this research, he exposed the lizard mother to cortisol which increased the glucocorticoids level and this was used to observe offspring behaviour and

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