Horned lizards

JT Parrish, an IT specialist, and Ellen Willse, an aquarist, both with the Oklahoma City Zoo, hunt for Texas horned lizards at Tinker Air Force Base. The Tinker Natural Resources team has long tracked the lizard population on base and has teamed with the zoo, which provides lab space and a place to hatch eggs before releasing the hatchlings back into the wild. (Air Force photo by April McDonald)

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Horned Lizards

Miranda Vesy, a Southern Illinois University employee who works on lizard research at Tinker Air Force Base, holds a Texas horned lizard that has been fitted with a tracking device. Members of the 72nd Air Base Wing Civil Engineering Squadron’s Natural Resources team attach the transmitters to the lizards with temporary adhesive, then release the lizard back into the grasslands on Tinker. The lizards don’t stray far, but their camouflage and small size make locating them a learned feat for researchers. (Air Force photo by Marlin Zimmerman)

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Tracking the Tinker Texas horned lizards

Published July 17, 2017
72nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- JT Parrish, an IT specialist, and Ellen Willse, an aquarist, both with the Oklahoma City Zoo, hunt for Texas horned lizards at Tinker Air Force Base. The Tinker Natural Resources team has long tracked the lizard population on base and has teamed with the zoo, which provides lab space and a place to hatch eggs before releasing the hatchlings back into the wild. (Air Force photo by April McDonald)

Horned lizards

Horned Lizards