Bearded Dragons are lizards of a moderate size. Those reptiles have a good temperament and are easy to tame. They are also very sociable and interact with one another, using a complex set of body gestures. Beardies use head bobs, arm circling movements and body, together with other more subtle movements. They also socialise and interact with humans who are familiar to them.
Fully-grown adults vary in length from 45-60 cm (18-24 inch). Even in captivity those lizards are relatively easy to breed, which is one of many reasons why they are recently so popular as pets.
Bearded Dragons comes originally from Australia. The continent of Australia separated from South America and Antarctica about 55 million years ago. This separation created, over the passing years, a land completely isolated from the rest of the world.
In Australia you can find plants and animals which you cannot find anywhere else on this planet. The animal life in Australia is so special because it evolved untouched by outside influences for many centuries. You can find there many unusual animals from egg-laying mammals with beaks to stomach-brooding frogs. You can also encounter mammals that hop and carry their young pouches and plenty of reptiles such as frilled lizards.
Lizards just like Bearded Dragons are among the unique fauna that evolved there in isolation. They occupy mainly the Eastern and Central part of Australia. Australia has an amazing variety of snakes and lizards. Which makes this continent so interesting and even dangerous at times. It is not a rare view to spot a reptile in wild or even around the house.
People however accept those uninvited visitors and show respect for the animals. Oftentimes they keep a Bearded Dragon at home just to exterminate insects from the house. This partnership works fantastic for both parties. The lizard has a home full of food and the human has no insects issue any more but a pet instead.
Bearded Dragons don’t have many enemies. Their natural predators are mainly cats and foxes. So in places where there are many of them their population is reduced. They are however not one of endangered species in Australia, unlike many other native Australian animals. Their numbers are quite stable.
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