{"id":9964,"date":"2021-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/spotted-sandveld-lizard\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:41","slug":"spotted-sandveld-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/spotted-sandveld-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Sandveld Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spotted Sandveld Lizard<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spotted Sandveld Lizard [<em>Nucras intertexta<\/em>]\n<p><strong>Appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a large \u00a0lizard, It is common for the lizard to have spots on its back with an orange-brown tail. Its back can be brown-reddish to light brown color with pale spots that may look like it has black outlines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They eat scorpions, spiders and sometime other lizards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find the spotted sandveld lizard in the north of Kwa-Zulu Natal, southern Mozambique, they can also be found through the Kalahari district and in the Kaokoveld in the north of Namibia.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Breeding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The females lay 2-8 eggs in the beginning of the year. The babies average about 60cm on birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted Sandveld Lizard Name Spotted Sandveld Lizard [Nucras intertexta] Appearance It is a large \u00a0lizard, It is common for the lizard to have spots on its back with an orange-brown tail. Its back can be brown-reddish to light brown color with pale spots that may look like it has black outlines. Diet They eat scorpions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}