Black-necked Agama by Ken _Gilliland
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Here's my digital rendition of the male Black-necked Agama....
It is a species of tree agama that measures about 20 cm in length. It is native to East, Central and southern Africa. Its largest continuous range is in southeastern Africa, and it occurs at high densities in the Kruger National Park. It is found in Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, D.R.C., Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland.
They form structured colonies with a dominant male, several females and juveniles. The males defend territories and engage in combat. Although mostly diurnal, they sometimes exhibit nocturnal activity. It adapts readily to the vicinity of human habitation. They are classic ambush foragers which spend only 4% of their time moving. This involves an average of less than one movement in two minutes. When stationary, the adults position themselves on lateral branches (42% of the time), on tree trunks (35%), or occasionally on the ground (23%).
They subsist on an insect diet, consisting of orthopterans, beetles and ants. They also eat millipedes, which other lizards tend to avoid. The juvenile’s diet is dominated by ants.
Rendered in Poser without postwork. Models include DinoRaul's tree bundles, Flink's skydome, and my Nature's Wonders Lizards/Lizards of the World Volume II

Comments (10)
WOW.........what a cracking image of a beautiful critter...........very well done :)
Wonderfully done!!!
What a marvelous capture my friend and his colors are really fantastic !!!
A gorgeous little chap! I'm really excited about your doing lizards and would love to see you do for them what you have done for birds - and with so much variety, there's plenty of scope for it.
And with colourful beasties like this one, I've some incentive to move my focus from horror to some pulp fantasy.
Love'em. What great colors.
Spectacular job!
Marvelous creation !!!!!!
Great creature - lovely to see it generated with your 3D model.
Great render
beautiful