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Relatively unspectacular lizard… (#11 in Namibia single-image series)

 

 

…by Namibian standards!

You’ll see what I mean when you see some of the others, in a future, multi-image, lizard-centric post.

If you love lizards, Namibia is a particularly loveable destination.

Pictured above is a male Namibian Rock Agama (Agama planiceps); the female has a very different appearance, and when in full-tilt summer season breeding regalia this male would become much more multi-colourful.

Agamids are members of Agamidae, a family of more than three hundred species which includes Australia’s frill-necked lizard; many Agamids are known as “dragons” or “dragon lizards”.

Discover more about them here.

I took the photo at 12.27 pm on 11 November 2022, just a few footsteps distant from where, six hours earlier, I had taken the Kunene River image for #10 in this Namibian single-image series.

 

 

 

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