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Outdoors south

The beloved Texas horned lizard stubbornly holds on despite predators, pesticides, and us.

The chirping sound came from the transmitter in her little 1 -inch backpack. We couldn't see her, but she was close, real close.

Donald C. "Chip" Ruthven, a biologist at Texas Parks & Wildlife's Chaparral Wildlife Management Area, waved the handheld antenna of his radio telemetry equipment in a sweeping motion. He fixed on a certain direction and then followed the chirping sound as it grew even louder. He stopped and stooped.

"There she is," We saw her under a hog plum bush, nearly flattened in the terra-cotta soil of South Texas. "She" was a Texas horned lizard, wearing a little reddish-brown ...

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