African Redhead Agama-In a Family way

These creatures eat ants, grasshoppers, and beetles in their native Africa. Here they feed on ants, spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets and katydids along with flowers, grass, dead leaves, and human food such as candy, bread crumbs, pieces of carrots.

In Florida, African redhead lizards, also called African rainbow lizards, are seen in urban areas on rocks, walls, sidewalks, rooftops and on trees.

Females reach sexual maturity when they are 14-18 months old, males are mature at 2 years. The African redhead lizard reproduces during the wet season although they can reproduce nearly year round in areas with consistent rainfall. The pair will go through a mating ritual with the male approaching the female and head bobbing to her. She accepts by arching her back and raising her head.The female chooses areas that are covered with plants or grass, but in sunlight most of the day, to make a nest. She uses her snout and claws to dig a hole five centimeters deep, in sandy, wet, damp soil. She lays her 5-7 ellipsoidal-shaped eggs. The sex of the offspring depends on the temperature. Males are born with temperatures of 84 degrees and females at 78-80 degrees. The eggs hatch in 8-10 weeks.
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