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Colten - Frilled Lizard The Adventures of the Frilled Lizard The Frilled Lizard is a cool reptile. It is also known as the Frilled Dragon. In Australia they are called the bicycle lizard because of its behavior. The Frilled Lizard can change into a lot of colors. It matches the land it lives on. The Lizard may grow up to one meter! The head and body length is 28 cm. When the frilled lizard is scared it opens its mouth and the frills come out. . The Frilled Lizard is a tree dweller of Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. This reptile lives in a tropical climate with warm temperatures where there are dry forests, woodland, and savanna woodland ,usually with an open shrubby or tussock grass under story. Where they are clearing land in Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory this reptile is hark to find. The Frilled Lizard eats with its frill back and hunts mostly in the trees for insect’s .But it also deseeds to the ground to catch other insects including ants, spiders, and even small lizards that venture to close. The Frilled Lizard lives 8-10 years .It can lay8 to 10 eggs. The Frilled Lizard breeding season is early spring. The frilled lizard is not any in the wiled. The Frilled Lizard is no parental care for their young. The Australian Frilled Lizard is currently in no danger of extinction When it raises its secular ruff, it transforms itself into one of the most colorful of all the Australian lizards’ .On the ground this reptile is an exceptionally fast – moving animal. Most of the time it runs upright on its hind legs, it looks rather strange. The Frilled Lizard, what a cool reptile!!!