Common Name: Red-headed Rock Agama

Scientific Name: Agama agama

Food: Their diet consists of mainly Ants, Grasshoppers, Beetles, and Termites. Small mammals, Small reptiles, and Vegetation such as Flowers, Grasses, and Fruits.

Distribution: Africa

Habitat: Tropical rainforest, tropical deciduous forest, tropical scrub forest, tropical savanna & grasslands, mountains, desert

Color Discription: Grayish brown with small crest. A blue body and yellow tail and head characterize the dominant male. The subordinate males, females, and adolescents possess an olive green head. whitish underside, buff brown back limbs and tail with a slightly lighter stripe down the middle and six to seven dark patches to the side of this stripe.

Physical Discription: 1) No wing-like dermal expansion on sides of body. 2) Throat fold absent; dorsal scale equal. 3) Male with well developed gular pouch; oblique fold in front of shoulder. 4) Sides of head and throat without enlarged scales. 5) Tympanum exposed 6) Males without rostral appendage. 7) Sides of head and throat without enlarged scales.

Size: 16" in. (40cm.)

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Breeding/Reproduction: She will lays her eggs in a hole she digs. The hole is five centimeters deep and is found in sandy, wet, damp soil that is exposed to sunlight nearly all day and covered by thick brush or grasses. The eggs are usually lay from 3-8 eggs in a clutch. The eggs will hatch within eight to ten weeks.

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