fan-throated lizard
These fan throated lizards belong to the family agamidae, the same family of the south indian rock agamas, which we came across in an earlier article.
They are known as fan throated lizards as they have an expandable flap of skin under their throat, known as a dewlap or a gular fan. These lizards expand this dewlap like a fan, for various purposes like warning enemies, courtship, identifying the species, etc. We did not see this one expanding its fan. May be next time!
Date: 14 Jun 2007
Location: @ Mrugavani, Hyderabad, India
Camera: Nikon D80 + Tamron SP AF90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens
Its Just a male lizard thats the way they mate you’ll see it all over florida
Awsome macro photography. Cheers:)
isnt this what we call “arana” in malayalam?
hey fly, this is not arana, but more like an onthu. aranas are known as skinks. here is a shot of one: https://www.rocksea.org/skink-mimicking-snake
Ohh, beautiful shots, great lens 😉
Those are some gorgeous captures!
As usual another nice picture from the reptile world, i wonder how you will get the exact name and details of those lizards.
another set of beautiful pictures from u. especially luved the last one with the thin dof & focus on the eye 🙂
I love the last picture 😀 the smoothness in it is perfectly done 😀
the sharpness is too good! the focusing and the angle of the last image is brilliant!
hey the photos are very good as i have done my M.Sc dessertation work on fan throated lizard and i have presented my work at IISc bangluru. so if you are working on this lizard then we can share our observations
scary 🙂
interesting… 🙂
Beautiful blog with some cool images of reptiles. I particularly like the images where the subject is incredibly camouflaged. Nice work.
It’s nice to see you after a long break. The lizard looks good as it’s image is captured by you 😉
I hope I have seen such lizard before but never with its fan open. I will see wherher I get a LIVE experience. If you get those pictures sometimes later, do post them.
hi abhi, how are you doing? need to check up on your blog updates… thanks for the comment, let me see if i could get some fans in the near future 😀
Wow! what a clean, neat picture! You amaze me with your “wild” “close” shots 🙂 Like Vibuthi says for a change lizards looks beautiful in your picture !!!
Great shots once again. I find it really tough to name these animals/birds according to the nomenclature… I wonder how you get to the minute details to share with us.
Hey mohan, other than quoting my interest on it ;), I would say that there are many email groups (yahoo/google) discussing on the diverse lifeforms you find in India. Sometimes I depend on google scholar too, for scientific information.
More amazing pictures from you after the break! Good to see a new post.
Wow…its the first time I’ll be calling a lizard beautiful!!
Thank God it didn’t fan out like in the video then Id have to change the adjective…hehehhe
Hehe. I am glad that you liked it. In fact, seeing this lizard for real, we felt that it was so tiny and lovely 🙂 We didn’t even notice it on first sight as it was neatly camouflaged on the rock.
Man, I just googled to see how it will look if it opened its fans, and yaar, see what youtube gave me! You’ve probably seen this.. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfPhDH7SQIU
Just amazing!
And the tail is almost double the body size, just some creature.
haha, that is one scary lizard there!! grazie 🙂