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At present I am retired and spending my time mostly on fishing and photography. I bought my first SLR way back in 1982. It was a Minolta XG1. My last film camera was the Maxxum 9000. When the fantastic Sony Alpha 100 was launched, I changed over to the digital system. My Alpha 580 was acquired followed closely by my Alpha 77.

My main interest in photography is lifestyles, sports, sceneries, nature, birds and macro shots. Lately, I have spend more time on bird and nature shooting. As a regular contributer to some fishing magazines, I shoot quite a lot of photographs of anglers too....hence my photography blog is named 'SHOOT THE HOOKER'.



Having grown up near the confluence of two, the Kangsar and the Perak Rivers, it is not surprising that one of my main interest is fishing. My younger days were spent swimming and fishing.... with a bamboo pole, line and small hooks.Now while fishing, my friends and I do take a lot of photographs of anglers in action. The anglers must be careful so as not to accidentally hook on to a photographer. So I think as a reminder, I would like to name my fishing blog as 'HOOK THE SHOOTER'.

Friday, June 21, 2013

BUTTERFLY LIZARD OF MALAYSIA.



A beautiful healthy Malayan Butterfly Lizard.



The butterfly lizard is an agamid native of Thailand, Myanmar, Malay Peninsular and Sumatra. There are eight species and they breed by normal sexual reproduction. But four species are parthenogernetic and has only one sex. They reproduced by cloning. The Malayan Butterfly Lizard (Leiolepis beliana beliana) is one of them.

Its paterns and markings are colourful.


These lizards prefer open, dry, sandy areas where they live in burrows. At the slightest sign of danger they will dart back into their burrows, but will re-emerge about five minutes later.

Vegetations and small insects, constitute to their main diet. They are monogamous and will care for their youngs for some months before the youngs leave to build their own burrow.


A Butterfly Lizard
 feeding on a cricket.



They are quite territorial and can be seen to drive away intruders from nearby burrows. I have seen some of them living quite close together. In a radius of 15 meters, I have counted three burrows.


Peeping out of its burrow
before coming out to forage.
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