Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The yellow-spotted night lizard is sometimes suggested to be the inspiration for the "yellow-spotted lizards" in the children's novel Holes by Louis Sachar.However, in the making of the movie adaptation of the novel, the filmmakers used bearded dragons and painted yellow spots on them, rather than using actual yellow-spotted night lizards.
Lepidophyma cuicateca Canseco-Márquez et al., 2008 – Sunidero tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma dontomasi (H.M. Smith, 1942) – MacDougall's tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma flavimaculatum A.H.A. Duméril, 1851 – Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard; Lepidophyma gaigeae Mosauer, 1936 – Gaige's tropical night lizard [2]
The yellow-spotted monitor [1] [2] [3] (Varanus panoptes), also known as the Argus monitor, [4] is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia and southern New Guinea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family ... and eggs, a few species also eat fruit and vegetation ... yellow-spotted monitor
A goanna features as the heroic figure Mr Lizard in the Australian author May Gibbs’ children's books Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. A bronze statue of the goanna Mr Lizard has been placed outside the State Library of Victoria. The villain in the Disney film The Rescuers Down Under, Percival C. McLeach, has a pet goanna named Joanna.
The yellow-spotted tree frog is pale green with bronze patches that highlight dark spots. It has entirely webbed toes and is set apart from other frogs by the cream markings on its thighs.
The Timor monitor is a dwarf species of monitor lizard belonging to the subgenus Odatria. Generally, it is dark greenish-gray to almost black in background color, with bright gold-yellow or sometimes bluish spotting along its dorsal surface and a lighter straw-yellow color on its ventral side. It has a pointed snout, excellent eyesight and ...
Uromastyx lizards acquire most of the water they need from the vegetation they ingest. [citation needed] In the wild they generally eat any surrounding vegetation. When hatching, baby Uromastyx eat their own mother's feces as their first meal before heading off to find a more sustainable food source. They do this to establish a proper gut flora ...