. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ^ PUTTING THEM THROUGH THEIR snapshot of the Author and some of his lizards in their bipedal attitudes. 181 I82 Animal Life. THE AUSTBALIAN WATEE LIZAED. cheek by jowl in the morningsun. Certain species, how-ever, having eminentlyaggressive qualities it wasfound necessary to excludefrom this select family Old World Monitors,the American Teguexins orTejus, and. the beautifullyvariegated European ocel-lated lizards are not safecompanions of species in-ferior to themselves in sizeand strength, and if kept sho
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ^ PUTTING THEM THROUGH THEIR snapshot of the Author and some of his lizards in their bipedal attitudes. 181 I82 Animal Life. THE AUSTBALIAN WATEE LIZAED. cheek by jowl in the morningsun. Certain species, how-ever, having eminentlyaggressive qualities it wasfound necessary to excludefrom this select family Old World Monitors,the American Teguexins orTejus, and. the beautifullyvariegated European ocel-lated lizards are not safecompanions of species in-ferior to themselves in sizeand strength, and if kept should be provided with separate apartments. The sleeping idiosyncrasies of the various species under observation were varied in amarked manner. The chameleons, natural tree-dwellers, habitually clung to the branches,the tail sometimes assisting prehension, but more often being spirally coiled upon itselflike the proboscis of a butterfly. Other forms that chiefly frequented the groundduring the day would also resort to trees at night, the quaint Jew or Bearded lizard ofAustralia was one of these. Young examples would ascend as high as their weight wouldallow towards the apex of a slender sapling, a
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