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[[Image:Lizard_anole.jpg|300px|thumb|right|'''Defensive behaviour in an anole''' (Copyright © RVC and its licensors, Sean Bobbit, Sue Evans, Andrew Devare and Claire Moore. All rights reserved)]]

[[Image:Lizard_anole.jpg|300px|thumb|right|'''Defensive behaviour in an anole''' (Copyright © RVC and its licensors, Sean Bobbit, Sue Evans, Andrew Devare and Claire Moore. All rights reserved)]]

Lizards tend to be bright, alert and responsive, almost inquisitive. Captive-born ones are more tame and docile, and tolerate [[Lizard Handling and Restraint|handling]] and sometimes relax when being lightly stroked. Wild-caught lizards are often shy, wary and try to escape at the slightest disturbance.

Lizards tend to be bright, alert and responsive, almost inquisitive. Captive-born ones are more tame and docile, and tolerate [[Lizard Handling and Restraint|handling]] and sometimes relax when being lightly stroked. Wild-caught lizards are often shy, wary and try to escape at the slightest disturbance.

==Defensive behaviour==

==Defensive behaviour==

[[Image:Horned_lizard_blood.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Coast horned lizard (''Phrynosoma coronatum'') after squirting blood from its eye to protect itself.''' (Photo credit: Zylorian, Wikimedia Commons)]]

[[Image:Horned_lizard_blood.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Coast horned lizard (''Phrynosoma coronatum'') after squirting blood from its eye to protect itself.''' (© Zylorian, Wikimedia Commons)]]

[[Image:Lizard_Fight.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Two male red-headed rock agama lizards fighting''' (Photo credit: Jason Pratt, Wikimedia Commons)]]

[[Image:Lizard_Fight.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Two male red-headed rock agama lizards fighting''' (Photo credit: Jason Pratt, Wikimedia Commons)]]

When threatened, iguanas, [[Monitor|monitors]] and other lizards tend to display defensive aggression. They stand sideways to the threat, swallow air to increase their size, stand high off the ground to look bigger and lash at the threat with their tails. Some lizards may display head bobbing and push-ups or gape and threaten to bite.

When threatened, iguanas, [[Monitor|monitors]] and other lizards tend to display defensive aggression. They stand sideways to the threat, swallow air to increase their size, stand high off the ground to look bigger and lash at the threat with their tails. Some lizards may display head bobbing and push-ups or gape and threaten to bite.