Love, Lizard Style

Posted by Leslie on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Why write a Thursday Thirteen post or one about the conference or one about my few days in San Francisco and Montery Bay or one about all of the people I met last week or one about the EIGHT hours I spent in the emergency room with my daughter?

Who cares about any of that when I can write about a 110 year old lizard who finally got laid.

Good old Henry is a tuatara, a lizard-like creature descended straight from dinosaurs (looks like a iguana to me). There are only a small colony of them left in New Zealand’s offshore islands. But Henry didn’t want to do his job for four decades. And then a tumor was discovered near his groin. Once that bad boy was removed, Henry had a renewed interest in the fairer sex. He mated with Mildred, a 70+ year old tuatara and she laid twelve eggs.

He’s got plenty of time to make up for those years of missed sex. At over a century old, he’s only lived half his life span.

See – now wasn’t that more interesting than the other boring stuff I mentioned?