· Frilled lizards inhabit Northern Australia	Click here for frilled lizard photos!
	· They are one of Australia's most distinctive and familiar dragon lizards
	· They are quite robust, with long limbs and a moderately long tail
	· They have a frill folded up around their neck, and when they are startled, it spreads out and makes the lizard look twice as big as it normally is. Then the lizard makes hissing noises and shows its teeth

· The frill is also believed to aid in the regulation of body temperature

· Frilled lizards are arboreal, spending 90% of their time in trees

· They're about 30 cm, plus the tail (which is around 40cm long)
· They live in tropical to warm temperate dry forests, woodland and savanna woodland
· Land clearing is reducing the area where this reptile is found
· The colour of the lizard matches the land on which it lives, so their colour may differ from region to region
· It is a very difficult animal to see when its frill is completely folded back
· The male is more colourful than the female
· They eat with their frilled back and hunts mostly in trees for insects, but it also descends on the ground to catch other insects and small rodents
· They are not poisonous
· Individual lizards' scales are different colors, depending on where they live
· They reproduce by laying eggs - 8-12 soft-shelled eggs are laid in a clutch (a set of eggs laid at one time)
· The young are left to fend for themselves
· This sun-loving lizard is the reptile emblem of Australia - it used to appear on the two-cent coin