There are nearly 6000 types of lizards. Reptiles differ across the territory of dwelling, appearance and preferences in food. Some lizards are among predators, others – to herbivorous beings, the third category eats both a vegetable, and animal forage. Generally the food allowance of a reptile is influenced by its size. The more a lizard – the more obviously that she eats exclusively living fellows.
Vegetable food in a diet of an ordinary lizardHerbivorous lizards eat various grades of fruit, vegetables and berries. Reptiles which live near kitchen gardens, fruit and vegetable plantations willingly regale on carrots, cabbage, lettuce leaves, apples and even strawberry.
Some types of lizards consider favourite food pollen and nectar of plants. However if at the time of inspection of a flower the small fly or a larva gets to them, then it will become successful addition to a lunch. Lizards who eat only vegetable food in the nature are not enough. Such reptiles there are only several versions.
Sometimes lizards meet two tails. Such feature is not a genetic deviation. When the tail of a reptile is injured, on the place of a gap new begins to grow.
Food of lizards predatorsPredatory lizards generally eat an animal forage. However in the absence of suitable food they do not refuse also vegetation. Lizards of the small sizes eat worms, a set of types of insects, hunt small vertebrata. Larger reptiles attack small birds and eat their eggs. There are lizards who hunt not only Amphibia, snakes and small mammals, but also hunt the fellows of the smaller size and even catch fish. The largest lizards, for example monitor lizards, can eat drop. And for them has no appearance of dead animal value. It can be a reptile, a mammal or a bird.
Popular belief that the most predatory lizards are monitor lizards. However there is a kind of these reptiles which is absolutely indifferent to hunting for animals, and eats only ants.
Lizards in house conditionsIt is necessary to treat food of the lizards who are contained in house conditions with heavy responsibility. Vegetables and fruit are a forage, habitual for herbivorous reptiles. When choosing a grass it is necessary to give preference to the clean plants which grew far from carriageways and are not processed by fertilizers or chemicals. The polluted food will do serious harm to health of a reptile. If a domestic lizard – mice, rats, insects and their larvae, worms, snails and fish have to make a predator, then the main diet of her food. Boiled meat is recommended to be given very seldom, only as an exception if there is no other forage. Vitamins are necessary for lizards for normal development. To reptiles cook special food with addition of the powder vitaminized mixes. Herbivorous lizards are recommended to give boiled rice, and to predators strew with vitamin "seasonings" insects and larvae. It should be noted that to many rodents who are available on sale for feeding to lizards special vitamin injections become. For this reason such forage not only satisfies hunger of a reptile, but also enriches an organism with necessary amount of nutrients.