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Colorado Life Zones: Seasons, Plants, & Animals

Step 1: Choose One of the Life Zones or Choices Below

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Colorado Life Zones General Information Interactive Elevation & Life Zone Diagram Colorado Maps: Life Zones and More Semidesert Shrublands (West CO) Shortgrass Plains Life Zone (East CO) Foothills Woodlands & Shrublands Montane Forests Life Zone Subalpine Life Zone Alpine Life Zone Riparian Life Zones

Foothills Life Zones: Seasons, Plants, & Animals

Step 2: Choose a Topic from the Foothills Life Zones & Scroll Down

Foothills Life Zones General Information
General Information

Foothills Life Zones Through the Seasons
Through the Seasons

Foothills Life Zones Woodlands and Shrublands
Woodlands and Shrublands

Foothills Life Zones Awesome Adaptations
Awesome Adaptations

Foothills Life Zones Plants and Trees
Plants and Trees

Foothills Life Zones Mammals
Mammals

Foothills Life Zones Birds
Birds

Foothills Life Zones Reptiles and Amphibians
Reptiles & Amphibians

Reptiles and Amphibians of the Foothills Life Zones

The temperatures get cool enough in the summer to cause fewer snakes or lizards to live here. The majority of all snakes and lizards live at or below the lower part of foothills.
By the riparian areas of the foothills you may find tiger salamanders, toads, and frogs. Click on the Riparian Life Zones link to find out more about them.

Bullsnake or Gopher Snake

CO Herp Society

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

eNature

Bullsnake or Gopher Snake

Smooth Green Snake

CO Herp Society

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

eNature

Smooth Green Snake

Other Snakes:

CO Herp Society

CO Herp Atlas

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

Western Terrestrial Garter Snake

Plateau Fence Lizard

CO Herp Society

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

eNature

Plateau Fence Lizard

Variable Skink

Many-Lined Skink

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

eNature

Variable Skink

Eastern Collared Lizard

CO Herp Society

Utah Div of Wildlife

eNature

Collared Lizard

Other Lizards:

CO Herp Society

CO Herp Atlas

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

Tree Lizard

Different Kinds of Toads:

CO Herp. Society

CO Herp Atlas

CSU NDIS

Utah Div of Wildlife

Plains Spadefoot Toad
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Awesome Adaptations: Eastern Collared Lizard

The collared lizard is one amazing lizard. The eastern collared lizard has beautiful spotted bright green and yellow skin. It has black collars around its neck and a yellowish head. When the lizard gets stressed its skin on its head turns orangish-red. When a predator or human tries to catch it, the lizard is not afraid to bite and the bite is strong for the lizard's size. Yet, most of the time it will choose to run away. The collared lizard can run using its back legs only making it look like it can run standing up. The lizard can jump large distances also. Like other lizards when grabbed by the tail, it may loses its tail and regrow a new one. If that is not enough, the collared lizard will eat most any animal that can fit in its mouth, like other lizards, insects, baby mice, and other small creatures. The bright green collared lizard may be easy to spot on the reddish sandstone rocks, but its athletic ability and attitude make it one fascinating lizard.

Sources of information and to find more information: CO Herp Society, Utah Div of Wildlife, eNature

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Collared Lizards Collared Lizard