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Female Oriental Garden Lizard

Calotes versicolor

Photo by KitchilPus
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Field Notes

Description:

The female lays from five to sixteen soft oval eggs, about 5/8 of an inch long, in hollows of trees, or in holes in the soil which they have burrowed, afterward covering them up. The young appear in about eight or nine weeks.

Habitat:

The oriental garden lizard, eastern garden lizard or changeable lizard found widely distributed in Asia. It has also been introduced in many other parts of the world.

Notes:

Changeable Lizards are related to iguanas (which are found only in the New World). Unlike other lizards, they do not drop their tails (autotomy), and their tails can be very long, stiff and pointy. Like other reptiles, they shed their skins. Like chameleons, Changeable Lizards can move each of their eyes in different directions.

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PublishedApril 11, 2016

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