General Hardwicke’s Dabb Lizard. Matching food intake for its own requirements to supply in a seasonally variable desert

General Hardwicke’s Dabb Lizard (Saara hardwickii) has recently contributed significantly to understanding of how dietary intake and retention of key nutrients change according to the needs of an animal at a particular time and according to the availability of food of different composition. The whole approach is that pioneered by Steve Simpson and David Raubenheimer first at Oxford and more recently in Sydney: what are animals attempting to achieve when they eat and how they cope with food that.