RIP

[Confuscious]

This morning, while cleaning my patio, I found this beauty.
But a bunch of ants had murdered him/her before she could cross my patio.
It was about 40cm long when I found it.

 

It looks like some kind of dragon, but I don't know anything about tropic animals.
So, if somebody can tell me what kind of animal it was (before dying) and some details about it, I would like to hear it.

TIA

 

[VinnieK]

 

Oriental garden lizard

A cat probably killed it..not ants 

Ants were just carting it away 

 

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

May have been a Forest Crested Lizard. The spots look similar to this one:

 

https://www.thailex.info/THAILEX/THAILEXENG/LEXICON/Indochinese Forest or Blue Crested Lizard (Calotes mystaceus) กิ้งก่าหัวสีฟ้า.htm

 

[ukrules]

If you leave it there you will see a bright white skeleton laid out where the lizard currently lies once the ants take away everything except the bones - they work fast.

 

It will likely be a shiny white pure skeleton by tomorrow. I saw one in the garden here myself.

 

Ants definitely didn't kill it - birds or cat.

[sammieuk1]

Your patio seems to alive for my liking ????

[Confuscious]

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Ants definitely didn't kill it - birds or cat

I remember a strange sound at night.

Something like a cry for help.

Guess it was the dragon in a fight.

Damned cats, i hate them.

[VinnieK]

11 hours ago, Confuscious said:

I remember a strange sound at night.

Something like a cry for help.

Guess it was the dragon in a fight.

Damned cats, i hate them.

I love cats but they will decimate every lizard in the garden (geckos incl)

..and anything else that they can lay their paws on