Black Lizard



The Black Lizard, also known as the Mole Lizard, is a pitch black pole-climbing lizard with small white whiskers and a gray head, with little variation in appearance between each individual. They move and hunt in the darkest regions of the world using only sound and touch.

Advanced Hearing
Unlike other lizard subspecies, Black Lizards are blind, but have advanced hearing abilities. Areas where Black Lizards appear tend to be very cramped, making it harder to escape when the player is detected. When a Black Lizard hears a sound, its normally black head will light up and it will quickly head towards the source of the noise. If the creature the Black Lizard heard has left its position, the Black Lizard will begin to search around the nearby area for it.

Combat
Black Lizards are easy to kill. Black Lizards take up to three spears to kill, but have sluggish movement. Black Lizards also have poor tracking abilities. However, Black Lizards' low aggressiveness minimizes the chance that another one will attack the one that has bitten the player. Be aware that killing a Black Lizard in a pipe requires it to be retreating from you, as the lizard cannot be flipped over by a thrown piece of rubbish when inside pipes. They're also very easy to slide-spear since they can't see Slugcat and as such can't react to bite in time.

Black lizards have a 35.7% or 5/14 chance to kill the player with each bite.

Stealth
Black Lizards are easy to avoid completely, provided they are not crawling towards you to begin with. Black Lizards can easily be avoided by traveling above or below them. The player should attempt to avoid jumping or throwing objects, as the noise will attract the Black Lizard towards the player.

Evasion
Black Lizards are easy to evade, provided that they have not cornered the player. Black Lizards will travel in the direction of noise, so remaining out of a lizard's path and traveling above or below them allows evasion. Black Lizards are also quite slow and can only change elevation by climbing through pipes or along poles, so tunnel-dashing in vertical pipes can be effective to avoid them. If a Black Lizard is heading towards the player, the player can also throw a rock or spear in a different direction to distract it.

Taming
Black Lizards are easy to tame, requiring about 4-5 lantern mice or scavengers to tame. After being tamed, the Black Lizard will follow you into any pole-accessible shelter. Taming a Black Lizard has the additional effect of pacifying the remaining Black Lizards in the current area.

Trivia

 * Black Lizards' heads will glow white when they are alerted to a sound.
 * Black Lizards have the second lowest Aggressive Rival stat between lizard types, behind Yellow Lizards. Because of this, Black Lizards appear to be more tolerant of living with their own kind more than other lizard species.
 * Black Lizards are typically regarded as the easiest lizard to fight, due to them being slow-moving, blind, and having a low bite kill chance. However, Black Lizards usually travel in small groups, meaning that the player may have to fight more than one lizard.