Common Name: Bearded Dragon

Scientific Name: Pogona barbata

Food: These lizards are known to feed on flowers and other vegetable matter, yellow Dandelions as well as cockroaches, crickets, mealworms, earthworms, beetles and even smaller lizards.

Distribution: eastern and southern coasts of Australia

Habitat: They live in a variety of habitats, including seasonally wet forests and dry scrublands.

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Physical Discription: It is a large species of variable color. It has a less robust body and the possession of an orderly row of spines along the lateral edge of the body, which continues down the forearm. Large terrestrial and semi-arboreal lizards. They tend to have broad triangular heads, heterogeneous body scales, flattened body and relatively short tail which has a distinctive lateral series of spinose scales on both side of the base. The tympanum (eardrum) is exposed. The pre-anal and femoral pores are present and the spikes are bigger. And may possibly be the largest species in the Pogona genus.

Size: 20"

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Breeding/Reproduction: Males will compete for mates and will use various forms of head bobbing and other movements to communicate. These lizards commonly tail bite and are known to injure one another in some circumstances. Breeding activity starts with warmer weather, which starts in late August or the end of September. They sometimes can produce more than one clutch a season. Eggs can be incubated at anywhere between 80º and 90º degrees Fahrenheit resulting in a 45 - 70 day incubation.

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