earless

I tried to shrug off a dark feeling I was getting and recapture the warm sense of justice: Sarah and Daniel, earless too.

He chewed the ears off a squeaky pink stuffed rabbit and now parades around the house with its earless body whenever he’s at his friskiest.

More than a third of the reptiles on the list—including Borneo’s earless monitor lizard and Madagascar’s Uroplatus finaritra, a leaf-tailed gecko—have not been evaluated for their conservation status.

Eddie the Lilac Lion, a toothless, earless cat who charmed thousands on Instagram, died in 2018.

So when a species suddenly becomes a coveted commodity—whether it be something as common as a tokay gecko or as rare as an earless monitor lizard—things can suddenly spiral out of control.