Pogona barbata

The bearded dragon of the east ( Pogona barbata ) is a species of Lézard of the family of the endemic Agamidae in Australia.

Description

It measures an about sixty centimetres length with the tail, twenty five without the tail. The body is generally gray but it can be quelquefos brown, energy of brown yellowish with brown dark. The belly is white or gray pale. The interior of the mouth is of a brilliant yellow. The adult male has around the neck of the small outgrowths resembling hairs which are at the origin of its name of " dragon barbu". It resembles much his cousin, the bearded Dragon of the center ( Pogona vitticeps ) but it is characterized some by two points: its body is tapered more and especially by the lines of spines which it has on both sides of the body and which continues on the front legs.

Distribution and habitat

He lives in all the part is Australia apart from the Cape York.

He lives the wood of Eucalyptus even in urban area.

Food

He nourishes insects, small lizards and snakes

Lifestyle

It is an apprehensive animal which will seek not to point out itself while remaining motionless to pass unperceived. If it feels threatened, it will take a posture of defense by opening its mouth, rectifying its " poils" and inflating its body.

Reproduction

The female lays about thirty eggs in a not very deep burrow.

External bonds

http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/Documents/Rept/BEAR.HTM
http://boxhead7.tripod.com/landcare/wildlife/bearddrag02.html photographs
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/lthumbliv.htm photographs of many species of Australian lizards.

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