Common Flying Dragon

• It feeds mainly on ants and termites.
• The female comes down to the ground only to lay her eggs, spending the rest of her life in the trees.
• It lives in the tropical forests of South East Asia, in open secondary forest and along forest edges.
• locomociónIt can glide more than 60 metres between trees on elongated skin-covered ribs, spread like a wing only at the moment it leaps.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton with elongated ribs supporting skin membranes (reptile)

Habitat & environment

Tropical forest of South East Asia, mainly in open secondary forest and along forest edges

Birth weight

Weight at hatching not found as a precise figure; small egg

Size at birth

Small on hatching, able to glide almost at once

Sexual maturity

No precise figure in the sources consulted

Gestation / incubation

~32 days of egg development (some sources give 45-60 days)

Litter / clutch size

1 to 5 eggs per clutch (most commonly 5)

Sources consulted: A-Z Animals; Critter Science; Wowzerful; Animal Diversity Web; Animals.net; Wikipedia (Draco volans, Draco lizard); ExplorationJunkie

Best time: All year round in South-East Asia, by day, on tree trunks; the males display by extending the yellow dewlap.