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When we went for a bushwalk on the day of my birthday, I thought I would see lots of lizards sunning themselves on the rocks, but I didn't see any. Imagine our surprise when later in the day we came onto our verandah and there was a baby blue tongue lizard running arround. We gave it some fruit and then put it in the garden. This little one was about 25 cms long, and we occasionally see the adult ones in the garden. The adults can grow to a length of around 40 cms. To see a really amazing photo of a blue tongue lizard look at this photo taken by another Flickr member called Goooflex :
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#374 on Explore on 29th March, 2008.
The Iberian wall lizard is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Although it is easy to spot it sunbathing on walls and rocks in villages and mountains its number is not even remotely similar to that of a few years ago. When I designed this model decades ago I could see it every day in my backyard, today it is much harder to find. I found inspiration to design this model in the great model 'Monicaco', monkey by Luis Bas, published in the book El Libro de las Pajaritas de Papel. It could be considered a variation as they share the same base.
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La lagartija ibérica es un endemismo de la Península Ibérica y norte de África. Aunque sigue siendo fácil verla soleándose en paredes y rocas de pueblos y montañas su número no es ni remotamente parecido al de hace unos años. Cuando inventé esta figura hace décadas la veía a diario en el patio de mi casa, hoy en día cuesta cada vez mas. Para hacer este modelo me inspiré en el genial monicaco de Luis Bas, publicado en El Libro de las Pajaritas de Papel. Casi se podría decir que es una variación porque la base es la misma.
The genus Dracaena (romanized form of the Ancient Greek δράκαινα - drakaina, "female dragon"), also called Caiman Lizards.
Its head is bulky and often a red or orange colour. Their jaws are heavily muscular to help aid in eating its normal prey of snails, crawfish and fresh water clams. It also has a few adaptations that help it in its watery habitat.
My son spied this guy during the hike out to the Ibex Dunes. It's always a kick to come across one; if you manage to catch it they're usually pretty cooperative for a bit.
I am not a reptile person (for sure!) but when I saw this unique Zebra-tailed Lizard, I was intrigued. He would curl his tail up when he would run away exposing his zebra stripes, almost like he was wagging it. I suppose this is a distracting measure when being pursued. He posed nicely for me.
It's fun to watch these great lizards scamper across walls, they move almost like those old flicker book pictures....like in frames but at high speed.
Most small lizards move in this slightly jerky way.....hard to describe.
They are fairly long 5 to 6 inches noes to tail for a large adult.....but amazingly they can squeeze themselves into tiny cracks in the stone walls.
I'm not sure of ID, looks different to the garden lizard which is the usual common one. I thought I would record it anyway for the future unless anyone can help?