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Troglodytes thrives in a slightly humid rocky environment. The ideal troglodytes habitat has plenty of cracks and crevices available. This species remains highly localized tending to moving up and down one rocky outcrop for their entire lives. Troglodytes is unable to travel for extended periods of
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