Aulstralian Frilled Lizard
The Australian Frilled Lizard usually keeps its colorful frilled ruff folded flat against its long neck, but it will suddenly raise it during courtship or when treatened.
Diet.
Insects, spiders, and small mammels make up the Austrailian Frilled Lizards Diet.
Breeding
Frill-necked lizards breed in the early wet season from September to October. Adult males fight for mates, displaying their frills and biting each other. One to two clutches of 8-23 eggs are laid from early to mid-wet season from November to February. The eggs are laid in a nest 5-20 cm below ground, and usually in sunny areas. Incubation takes two to three months. Sex is partly temperature determined, with extreme temperatures producing exclusively females, and intermediate temperatures (29-35C) producing equal numbers of males and females. Their eggs are soft-shelled.
Behavior
Frilled Neck Lizards are tree dwellers and excellent climbers. In fact, they spend over 90% of their time in trees.
Australian Frilled Lizards are carnivorous and hunt for their food in trees and on the ground. In the trees they find spiders, cicadas, beetles etc., and on the ground more of the same plus ants and even other small lizards. Their eye sight is excellent and they are very fast. If they spot something from a tree they drop to the ground, grab it and are back up on the tree within seconds.
