When Finn asks how to get out of the cage, the wizard tells him, "Your cage is made of sticks, brother. However, after Finn helps the forest creatures by offering good advice, the wizard lets him go free. The Forest Wizard explains to him that the hole will make him become one with the soil. When Finn comes to, he is in a cage above a magical pit in the earth. When Finn breaks the laws of the forest, the wizard hits him over the head, knocking him out. He reappears in the episode " Storytelling," where he seems to be the leader of the forest, caring for all its inhabitants. Jake accidentally scares off the wizard and the bears by becoming big and knocking down some nearby trees. Though very little knowledge is available in roosting ecology of the species.The Forest Wizard first appears in the episode " My Two Favorite People," in which he gives away free power rings to Finn, Lady Rainicorn, and some bears. It roosts on green foliage bearing trees like Azadirachta indica. 74.4.29.836, has a broad vertebral stripe of buff with elongated dark brown spots. A half-grown example in the British Museum, no. Young and immature sometimes have a whitish dorso-lateral stripe. The underside is a pale green, the tail is light brown. The head is yellowish- or brownish-green whereas the male develops a bright red head and throat in the breeding season. Often the stripes continue on to the tail. The lizard has a bright green dorsal coloration, usually with 5 or 6 white, cream or dark green transverse stripes however these are changeable. calotes has a very long and slender tail. The hind-limb reaches to the front of the eye or further. The Limbs are moderate, the third and fourth fingers are nearly equal, however the fourth toe is distinctly longer than third toe. In adult males the height of the crest on the neck equals or exceeds the diameter of the orbit, on the back it gradually diminishes in size. The nuchal and dorsal crests are continuous, composed of closely set lanceolate spines with smaller ones at the base. A short oblique fold is in front of the shoulder and is covered with small granular scales. The gular pouch is not developed, the gular scales are feebly keeled, they are nearly as large as the ventrals. 30 to 35 scales cover the middle of the body. These scales point backwards and upwards and are as large as or a slightly smaller than the ventrals, which are strongly keeled and mucronate. The body is compressed, the dorsal scales are large and usually feebly keeled, but sometimes smooth. calotes has 9 to 11 upper and as many lower labials. A row of 8 or 9 compressed spines, divided into two groups, is above the tympanum, the diameter of these is less than half that of the orbit. The canthus rostralis and the supraciliary edge both are sharp. The lizard has a concave forehead, swollen cheeks and smooth, unequal upper head-scales. The length of head is one and a half times the size of its breadth, the snout is a little longer than the orbit. Calotes ophiomachus Duméril & Bibron, 1837Ĭalotes calotes, the common green forest lizard, is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.Ĭalotes calotes is a considerably large species of agamid, measuring 50 to 65 cm (19.5 to 25.5 in) in length, including the tail.
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