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The maned lion lizard (scientific name: Pogonavitticeps), or the central maned lion lizard, is a diurnal species of the lizardae family. It is mainly found in the eastern half of Australia. The total length is about 40 cm, and the maximum can reach 49 cm. Semi-arboreal type. Bluff by inflating your jaws. The food is dominated by insects and plants. There is a type called the jelly-maned lion, which gives it its name because the belly is translucent.

Chinese scientific name: Maned lizard

Latin scientific name: Pogonavitticeps

Nickname: Central maned lion

Two name method: Pogonavitticeps

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata phylum Chordata

Class: Sauropsida

Order: Squamata

Family: Glimpidae Agamidae

Genus: Maned lion lizard Pogona

Species: Maned lion lizard P. vitticeps

Distribution area: central and eastern inland Australia. Dry forests and deserts.

Feeding habits: Feeds on insects or plants

Morphological characteristics

The maned lion lizard [zōngshīxī] is about 40 centimeters long and can reach a maximum of 49 centimeters. Coarse body shape. The spinous scales located on the side of the body have different directions of growth. The back and nape of the neck are covered with spinous scales. When threatened, this lizard displays by opening its mouth and expanding its barbed throat, hence its Chinese name. There are two types of common maned lion lizards: one with a translucent belly and jelly-like body skin, which is the jelly-maned lion; The other has little or no spinous scales on its body, similar to ordinary leather, so it is called the leather-maned lion.

Habits

It inhabits a variety of environments such as forests and even deserts, and is semi-arboreal. Diurnal. Each litter can lay 11-26 eggs.

Maned lion lizard breeding

Vivarium

*From birth to 6 inches in size (about 15 cm): 20~30 gallons (0.09 cubic

m~0.14 m³)

*6 inches to adult: 60 gallons (0.27 cubic meters)

Adult or polyculture can be kept in larger terriums

It is very important to have an appropriately sized terrarium, if the terrariums are too small, their maned lion may become overheated or even die.

Heating lamps for daily use, heating lamps or ceramic heating at night, I personally think that ceramic lamps are easier to use. UVB lamp: 10.0: Thermostat.

Basin of water. See for yourself what you need to add

Dodge holes.

Bedding (reptile sand). In order to avoid eating the newspaper by mistake, it is best to use A4 paper if the conditions are sufficient.

Plenty of box space!

Lighting and heating

Daytime Lighting/Heating: Full-spectrum heated spotlights (UVA spotlights) need to be installed at the "hot" end of the vivarium. The wattage of the fixture depends on the size of the terrium and the distance of the fixture from the heating point, as well as your room temperature. The temperature of the hot spot (the place where your maned lion basks on rocks/wood/perches) should be around 110~115 degrees Fahrenheit (43~46°C) and the cooler side of the terrarium: about 80~85 degrees Fahrenheit (about 27~30°C). The temperature ladder is important for your maned lizard's health, ensuring that your maned lion lizard is able to digest food thoroughly and that his or her immune system is functioning properly. You need a good thermometer to measure the temperature accurately.

Your maned lion lizard will also need UVB exposure, which stimulates reptiles to produce vitamin D3, which determines calcium absorption. There are two different sources of UVB, direct sunlight is best if possible, and it is important to get direct sunlight because UVB cannot pass through glass and plastic. If you need an artificial source of UVB, we recommend that you use a 5.0 UVB lamp with a high-quality mercury vapor spotlight (UVA) that can reach the entire environment without being blocked by glass and plastic, and that the light should not be more than 12 inches (about 30 cm) away from your maned lizard.

Heating equipment: all kinds of heating lamps are available, for larvae, the maximum temperature during the day is below 30 can start to heat, and adults can start to 25 degrees below. The temperature under the lamp can be between 30 and 40 degrees, so there is enough temperature difference in such a large space for them to choose. There is no need to heat up at night when the temperature is above 20 degrees, and for adults, it can be started when it falls below 15 degrees. Regardless of size, it is enough to add to 20 degrees at night. In winter, it can also be equipped with heating pads or heating stones. The mat is buried under the mat.

Nighttime lighting

The lights should be turned off for 8~10 hours at night to allow your maned lion lizard to sleep and cool down, most people's room temperature will not drop to the point where it needs to be heated at night, but if your room temperature is below 60 degrees Fahrenheit (about 20 °C), it is best to consider installing a low wattage night light.

We recommend that lizards of any kind do not use heating stones, which are known to cause severe burns and even death.

Bedding

For bedding, we recommend using Washed Playsand (sic) for individuals over 8 inches (about 20 centimeters), which is about $5 for a 50-pound bag, and is as economical, clean, and safe as a screened pebble, with smooth grains and no sharp corners. Individuals under 8 inches, including newborn individuals, can use paper towels (papertowels, translated as kitchen paper) as bedding.

Alfalfa pellets: Another good bedding material is alfalfa pellets, which are edible, relatively inexpensive, and readily available. If you choose to use alfalfa pellets, you need to be aware that this bedding will maintain humidity and be prone to mold.

We do not recommend the use of crushed walnut skin, which is very sharp and can injure the inside of the maned lizard's stomach and intestines by ingestion.

Maned Lizard[1]

We also do not recommend the use of calcium-containing substrates that can be found on the market, the main reason is the adverse effects of this substrate, if the maned lion lizard eats this "calcium" sand, it will lead to a change in the pH level of stomach acid and reduce digestion, and the sand will also gather into a ball and cause blockage.

Set

We prefer to use different sizes and shapes of stone and wood, with greenslate (soak) being an excellent hotspot due to its good heat absorption, as well as a number of pre-formed man-made caves of different sizes.

Feeding

One of the most important things about feeding young maned lizards is to make sure they don't eat too much, for two reasons, one is the possibility of choking, which can easily choke to death due to the size of the catch. The second reason is the state of urgency that can be caused, especially in juveniles, when too much stress can cause temporary shock.

The larvae need to be fed frequently, and the newborn larvae can be fed crickets and green vegetables 3 times a day. The larvae are fed crickets and green vegetables twice a day. Sub-adults and adults can be fed crickets and vegetables once a day, when green vegetables should make up about 40 to 60 percent of their diet. [2]

We recommend a variety of recipes, which can be made up of the following categories:

Live insects:

・Do not exceed the distance between the eyes of the maned lion.

・As for the cockroach, the length is the same as above.

・Silkworms

・Tomato moth larvae

・Breadworms

・Butter worms

・Small Super Wheat Bark Worms, 8~12 inch (10~15 cm) maned lizards can be fed

・Medium-sized super wheat worms, 12~14 inches (15~20 cm) maned lizards can be fed

・Large super wheat worms, maned lion lizards over 14 inches (20 cm) can be fed

The hard chitinous shell of the Super Wheat Worm is difficult to digest, and too much or too much of a Super Wheat Worm can also cause urgency in the Maned Lizard by releasing it too much or too much at once.

Greens and vegetables:

・Mustard greens

・Kale

・Dandelion

・Chicory lettuce

・Carrots

・Peas (peas)

・Green beans

・Defrosted vegetable salad

Before feeding, it should be cut to the size that the maned lion lizard can eat in one bite

Nutrition (occasional feeding):

・Strawberries

・Apples

・Bananas

・Fresh fruit juice

・Melon

・*Suckling rats

*Some people prefer to feed with suckling rats, but it is not mandatory to feed your maned lion lizard suckling rats, but you can use them as a nutrient if you like, suckling rats are high in fat, so we only recommend occasional feeding as a nutritional supplement.

Don't feed your maned lizard fireflies! It's deadly!

Feed your feed:

Remember the old saying "what you eat?" Your maned lion lizard receives the same nutrients that you feed to feed insects. Regardless of the type of feed you choose for insects, you should feed your maned lizard at least 24 hours before feeding it with a good food, called gutloading. There are a lot of highly nutritious gutloading products on the market right now, and you can also make your own with what you have on hand, here are some of the things you can provide to feed insects:

・Dry dog food (the highest quality calcium and protein for puppies)

・Milk powder

・Sugar-free breakfast cereal

・Oats

・Corn mixture

・Bread

・Carrots

・A moist sponge or cotton ball provides moisture

Supplemental substances

Calcium powder: It is recommended to use calcium powder containing vitamin D3 suitable for indoor reptiles or calcium powder for outdoor reptiles without vitamin D3.

Multivitamin: A multivitamin for reptiles

These supplements are in powder form and can be sprinkled evenly on crickets (or other insects) before feeding the maned lizard, either by placing calcium powder and multivitamins in a small space such as a convenient paper cup or plastic container, adding the crickets and shaking gently until you see the powder attached to the crickets.

For newborn larvae and larvae, crickets soaked in calcium powder and multivitamins should be provided daily, and once every two days for sub-adults and adults.

Health care

Becoming a new lizard owner comes with a lot of responsibility, providing a clean and safe environment and proper nutrition is very important for the health of your maned lizard, and perhaps the most important and overlooked is to take your pet for regular health check-ups.

The embryos of this maned lion lizard, which lives in the desert of Australia, change from male to female in high temperatures.

According to foreign media reports, Australian scientists have found that the embryos of maned lion lizards living in the Australian desert can change their sex in a hot environment, changing from male to female.

The maned lion lizard is a type of lizard that lives in the Australian desert, and normally their female or male is determined by the sex chromosomes they inherit, however, scientists have recently discovered that high temperatures can prevent male chromosomes from functioning, allowing male embryos to transform into females. Alexander Quinn, a researcher at the University of Canberra in Australia, said the transgender lizard looked like a female and had female organs, but it was still genetically male.

Scientists have long speculated that the sex of an animal can be determined by genes or by some external factors, such as the effect of temperature during embryonic development.

Animal sperm and eggs each carry a set of chromosomes, including the decisive chromosomes. For the vast majority of mammals, including humans, females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. In the case of lizards, the sex chromosomes include the Z chromosome and the W chromosome, the female lizard has two different sex chromosomes Z and W, while the male has two identical chromosomes Z. Thus, in contrast to humans, in lizards, the female determines the sex of the offspring. If an egg with a W sex chromosome is fertilized, the fertilized egg will have a ZW chromosome (female), and if an egg with a Z chromosome is fertilized, the fertilized egg will have two Z chromosomes (male). Therefore, what kind of eggs a female produces determines the sex of the offspring.

Quinn and his research team artificially incubate the eggs of the maned lion lizards at different temperatures (between 20 and 37°C). Not a single embryo survived at the lowest temperature. At an ideal incubation temperature of 22 to 32 degrees, an equal proportion of female and male embryos are hatched. But when the incubation temperature rises to 34 to 37 degrees Celsius, the number of female embryos hatched far exceeds that of males, with males accounting for only one-sixteenth of the total.

Scientists examined the physical characteristics of the hatchling lizards, including their sexual organs and DNA. Almost all lizards that hatch at normal temperatures have the same genetic characteristics as their physical characteristics. But half of the lizards that hatched at higher temperatures had a genetic profile that did not match their physical characteristics, and some of the lizards that appeared to be genetically male were physically female.

High temperatures prevent the development of the male testicles during the development of the lizard embryo and replace them with the development of the female ovaries. Scientists believe that the proteins on chromosomes do their job at normal temperatures, but at high temperatures, they fail to stimulate the development of male traits.

The discovery has also led biologists to worry that if global warming continues, it could lead to a severe imbalance in the male and female ratios of species like the maned lion lizard, which could lead to extinction.

Protection level

Non-CITES species.

Day-to-day management

Maned lion lizard larvae can be fed once in the morning and once in the evening. Adults can be fed every day in summer, and even if they are warmed up in winter, it is normal to not eat or pull for a few days. The maned lion's stool is smelly, but it doesn't smell when you clean it every day. Therefore, people who do not want to take care of it every day or are naturally afraid of odor are not recommended to raise it. Maned lion lizard larvae should put a basin for them to drink water and bathe, and the adult maned lion lizard is dispensable. But you need to drink water during pregnancy and childbirth. Calcium powder and vitamins can be consumed for life, and can be put in food or licked directly, but it must be combined with sun or ultraviolet rays to avoid any use.