examples of reptiles [3]![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Reptiles: cold-blooded vertebrates covered in scales (about 6,000 species) having limbs that are sometimes atrophied or absent.
boa ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Medium-sized nonvenomous snake found in hot regions of the Americas; it lives mainly in trees or in the water and kills its prey by strangulation.
monitor lizard ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Large diurnal carnivorous lizard with an elongated head found in hot regions of Africa, Asia and Australia; there are land and aquatic species.
iguana ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Giant lizard found in tropical regions of the Americas and the Pacific islands and having a spiny dorsal crest; it lives mainly in trees.