Hence several lizard species have abandoned basking in favour of a lifestyle known as thermoconforming. This is where the lizard's body temperature simply conforms to that of the air around it. They are also seen at the Malanda Falls Environmental Park on the trees behind the picnic shelter. A Boyd's forest dragon is only found in the rainforests of north eastern Queensland. The male has a home range of about 1000 square metres.
Female ranges are slightly smaller.
Home ranges of the same sexes do not overlap but larger male territories often contain one or more female territories. Movements within the territories vary with season with dragons travelling 100m or more during summer days but relatively little in winter. These lizards spend much of their time perching on the side of tree trunks just one or two metres from the ground waiting to ambush prey. They sometimes have favourite trees to which they will regularly return. They eat beetles, spiders, crickets and lots of ants.