City-slicker dragons
Jan 02, 2019
3 minutes
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE WILSON
LIZARD BASKS IN the subtropical sun. It’s almost a metre long and powerfully built, with muscular hind limbs and an impressive crest of spines running down its neck and back. It warily eyes a similar large male lying nearby; both are scarred from recent disputes. Yet it seems indifferent to people crouching around, taking photos with their phones and posing for selfies. For these lizards aren’t in the bush. They’re sprawled out beside an ornamental pond in central Brisbane just a few hundred metres from
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