European green lizard

Lacerta viridis

• it is the largest lizard in Slovakia
• living in dry scrublands, borders of warm
  woodlands and river valleys
• it is oviparous, the female lays 5 – 25 eggs
• the lizard reaches up to 40 cm and is one of
  our rare lizards able to climb to trees
• it feeds on bigger insects, smaller birds and
  rodents, exceptionally other species of lizards, cannibalism occurs also
• the male has a yellow green colouring, olive
  green or brown vertex, in the mating season it has
  a bluish (turquoise) throat, the females have lighter brown-green colours, there were discovered
  also melanistic (black) individuals