{"id":9903,"date":"2020-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/giant-plated-lizard\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:45","slug":"reusachtige-hagedis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/giant-plated-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuzenhagedis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Giant Plated Lizard [Gerrhosaurus validus]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Giant Plated Lizard is a large lizard\u00a0 that has a rather flat head and body. It has a layer of dense and hard scales with adults having black and brown altering colours all along its back while their legs are mainly black in colour. Their throat is a dirty white colour while their belly is a light brown colour. The Juvenile Giant Plated Lizard have a mainly black colour with yellow spots distinctly shown on their backs and on their flanks.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Giant Plated Lizard has a diet that consists mainly of plant matter like fruits, grass, leaves, and flowers. They also have been seen feeding on lizards and baby tortoises as well.<\/p>\n<h2>Distribution<\/h2>\n<p>The Giant Plated Lizard can be found in and near the northern regions of South Africa.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>A single female will lay from 2 \u2013 5 oval shaped eggs rock crevices that they fill up with soil. They lay their eggs during the summer months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Giant Plated Lizard [Gerrhosaurus validus] Appearance The Giant Plated Lizard is a large lizard\u00a0 that has a rather flat head and body. It has a layer of dense and hard scales with adults having black and brown altering colours all along its back while their legs are mainly black in colour. Their throat is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}