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This query of mine appears to have been overlooked. Input anyone?

I beleive you are correct arks

"Males tend to grow larger than females and develop brighter breeding colouration" (Guide to the reptiles of southern africa, Graham Alexander, John Marais)

Another agama query — is this a ground agama? Or... ?? Seen at Cape Point in March 2010. It was quite small, perhaps a juvenile?

I'm still hoping for some help with this one Please?

That is a young animal hatchling infact,

Ground Agama - Agama aculeata.

Many thanks for your interesting reply, fooble! I'd never have guessed that it was that juvenile

I took this picture of a lizard at Onder Sabie. I would appreciate it if somebody could identify it as I do not have an idea what lizard this is.



I love this picture as one can clearly see the texture of the skin.

Leeukos, I'm afraid I can't find "your" Lizard in any of my books to be able to give you a positive ID.

WendyA has asked me to post this series of pics for her as she is having log in problems currently.

The Lizards, which I have identified as Common Flat Lizards, (hope that is right?) were seen at the Hippo Pools near Croc Bridge in Kruger recently and Wendy would like to know whether their frenzied activities were part of the mating ritual and if the females were fighting?
Thanks for any help.

On a rock near where the San art is, I found a couple of geckos. (I did check these out in a book and found out exactly what sort of geckos they were, but I can’t for the life of me find where I wrote it down.) Anyway, these two geckos looked as if they were fighting for their lives … they were biting each other and every now and then, would propel themselves a couple of inches off the rock, their tails were waggling so furiously.





Then another one appeared … ahaaaa… this was the male; were the two females fighting over him?











I’d be really interested to know what was going on there if anyone has any ideas …

you right about the ID.
I think the females could have been fighting for territory and the male,the winner got the man

Firstly a very warm welcome to the forum Ales,
and then thanks for the input re the Lizards and I'm sure it must have been what was going on.
Wonder which one of them won the man?

Thanks for the welcome!
Unfortunately I have never seen these in the wild,even though I go to Kruger every year,but they are very beautiful lizards.

Great Series of photo's.

Those are Lizzards infact not gecko's.
They are Flat Lizards of the genus Platysaurus i don't have any books with me now to give you the exact species will check it up for you.

Just wanted to say a Thank You on this thread to Elsa who posted the photos of the lizards I took whilst at the Hippo Pools and to Ales for confirming that Elsa's identification of them as Common Flat Lizards was correct.

So it was just a jealousy thing ... the 2 ladies fighting over the man!!! What a fight they had though, it was amazing to watch!

Thanks again.

I am really poor when it comes to identification of lizards. Maybe one can help me with that one:



The photo was taken at Tsitsikamma Nationalpark.

That is Blue-spotted girdled lizard Cordylus coeruleopunctatus