-*-Oriental Garden Lizard-*-
Oriental garden lizards are found in Asia, and are capable of rapidly changing colors.
Some of the colors you may see them come in are: brown, a grayish-olive, or even yellow.
These bright changeable colors are strange within male lizards.
During mating season its head, neck, and shoulders turn bright orange to red.
This gives them another common name: Bloodsucker Lizard.
Of course they don't suck blood at all.
Oriental garden lizards eat small vertebrates such as; rodents and other lizards.
Their teeth aren't used for tearing apart, they are used for gripping.
Prey are swallowed whole.
Young oriental garden lizards can choke on a prey if it's to big to swallow.
The oriental garden lizards are related to the iguana.
Females can lay up to 10-20 eggs. They bury them in moist soil.
In about 6-7 weeks they would hatch.
They can grow to be 15-16 inches.
They can grow to be 15-16 inches.
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