Thursday, October 10, 2013

Southern Tree Agama (Acanthocercus atricollis) M

Family Agamidae 

These lizards have quite a range of colours and are able to change them like a chameleon.
They are our largest Agama species and in the breeding season, the males head becomes bright blue.

Also see: http://saphotographs.blogspot.com/2011/10/southern-tree-agama-acanthocercus.html

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4 comments:

  1. Firefly the Travel GuyOctober 10, 2013 at 3:22 AM

    I have a picture of one of these waiting to be posted

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  2. GaelynOctober 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM

    Gorgeous! And I thought we had bright colored lizards in the SW.

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  3. DaveOctober 21, 2013 at 5:48 AM

    Saw one of these in KNP, a lovely thing, thanks for inadvertently IDing it for me

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  4. UnknownNovember 3, 2018 at 5:11 AM

    Am scared to take a pic at home we have it's what we should do about it please help

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