All good things must come to an end, and so it was with Leon's time in the Discovery Centre. Fear not, he is doing perfectly well back out in the Live Exhibits department, but he was starting to exhibit signs of age-related wobbliness, startling us all by falling off the perch (literally, not metaphorically) a few times.
So Live Exhibits folk came to effect the changeover, taking Leon out the back, pulling out his lush greenery, and replacing it with a more austere decor of driftwood and dry grasses.
Photo: Siobhan Motherway Source: Museum Victoria
In Leon's place we have Jacky (Amphibolurus muricatus). Jacky is a Jacky Lizard, a species widespread over south-eastern Australia. Whilst he isn't nearly the colour-changing show pony that Leon is, he makes up for it by being a lot more active, with daring leaps from log to log and onto the sides of the enclosure. And, to be honest, he has a far more attractive tongue.
Photo: Siobhan Motherway Source: Museum Victoria
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