What is the challenge that the orange-throated whiptail lizard is facing?

The orange-throated whiptail lizard is short-lived specie.  Their different ability to avoid captivity must be based genetically.  Long-lived reptiles can learn to adapt and recognize risk after stressful experiences unlike the short-lived reptiles in which orange-throated whiptail lizard belongs. Thus implying a rapid evolution of anti-predator behavior.

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a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.