Agama agama

[Josh]

Has anyone ever heard of and/or seen these animals before? I heard they're getting popular in the UK. I'd never heard of them until today...

 

[turtletania]

no...but they sure are beautiful.

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just looked it up..... it is the Agama "Spiderman" lizard from Kenya.... seems they are the latest craze in pet lizards.

 

[bettinge]

That is one cool dude! I want one. Looks like it might be a distant cousan of the Bearded Dragon.

 

[Tom]

I don't know this particular one, but there are tons of different Agamid lizards out there in the pet trade.

 

[jwhite]

is this the one they call the spiderman lizard?

 

[Itort]

That is one cool dude! I want one. Looks like it might be a distant cousan of the Bearded Dragon.

The bearded dragon is an agamid as are many Old World lizards. They are basically Old World equivalents of New World iguanids.

 

[RascalDesertTort]

I've seen pics before. They are gorgeous!

 

[Josh]

That is one cool dude! I want one.

me too!

 

[ChiKat]

Wow they're stunning! I had never heard of them either.

 

[Madortoise]

Oh wow. It really doesn't make sense why only the head is a different color; it wouldn't camouflage well that way, would it in their native land of Africa? I wonder if it's only male who have those flashy heads? wikipedia says they bob their heads to impress females.