This guy is a tree Agama. This one lives in my yard. We have 3 or 4 of these beautiful lizards living around our property. When they are frightened they can instantly change color to match the tree they are on making them very difficult to spot. In the afternoon they sit in the sun and turn these amazing colors. They get pretty big. One of the Agama in our yard is at least a foot long. This one is about 8 inches.
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Showing posts with label Creatures in my yard. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2009
Tree Agama
This guy is a tree Agama. This one lives in my yard. We have 3 or 4 of these beautiful lizards living around our property. When they are frightened they can instantly change color to match the tree they are on making them very difficult to spot. In the afternoon they sit in the sun and turn these amazing colors. They get pretty big. One of the Agama in our yard is at least a foot long. This one is about 8 inches.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rain Spider: In Memorium
This is the Rain Spider, and it grows quite large in southern Africa. I know because I took this picture which is of a specimen approximately 3 inches long in the back room of our house about a half an hour ago.I know that it may pain some of you to hear this but I crushed it with my shoe moments after photographing it. I was actually a little unsure as to whether my shoe was going to be enough to take down such a beast, but it did very nicely.
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