Thorny Devil
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These are the australian variants of the american horn lizards. Probably inexistent in captivity outside australia for two reasons. There has been a ban on the exportation of native wildlife by australia in the 1900's, correct my date if I'm wrong. Before that, they were probably unsuccessful exported due to their relatively high care standards and their limited scope of prey items, therefore, there would have been no or minimal cases of actual captive breeding. You have one?
They are not variants of the american horned lizards, they are examples of convergent evolution between 2 diferent lizard familys. The thorny devil is Agamidae and the horned lizards are Iguanidae (I think they have now been elevated into their own family within the clan Iguaniasnakefin;4346723; said:These are the australian variants of the american horn lizards. Probably inexistent in captivity outside australia for two reasons. There has been a ban on the exportation of native wildlife by australia in the 1900's, correct my date if I'm wrong. Before that, they were probably unsuccessful exported due to their relatively high care standards and their limited scope of prey items, therefore, there would have been no or minimal cases of actual captive breeding. You have one?
). The export ban I think its more recent than that. I herd rumors that a very are kept ilegally outside Australia, but they do very poorly in captivity. I herd even keepers of the Alice Springs Zoo (or educational center something), where some are temporarily kept, which are close to thornys habitat have trobble keeping them alive and triving. And that with acess to the proper species of ants.