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Knight
thesneakster
Grandmaster Knight
LOL!
Nice, urhh.... er.... lizard.
My favourite one would be a water dragon, cause they can swim.
My parents think teh best lizard is a dead one though....
Nice, urhh.... er.... lizard.
My favourite one would be a water dragon, cause they can swim.
My parents think teh best lizard is a dead one though....
RR_Raptor65
Knight
guspav said:
More along the lines of Precambrian-Late Cretaceous type stuff...
Tegus are pretty smart most of the time, when I still had her in a Cage, with a Kite Shield, Duct Tape and my 55 pound anvil holding the lid down, she STILL figured out how to escape.
You gotta watch your fingers when shes hungry though, shes mildly venomous...
thesneakster
Grandmaster Knight
Isn't it really the bacteria in her mouth that get's into us, and infects us.
RR_Raptor65
Knight
Partly, the other part of it is that most predatory lizards carry a venom that causes alot of swelling and tenderness at the bite. Lizards have venom, but they do not have the apparatus, such as fangs, to inject it. Instead, venom compounds are found in the saliva. If you've ever been bitten, that 'chewing' thing they do when they grab ahold, well, now ya know why.
RR_Raptor65
Knight
Yeah, she goes in there on her own, and starts fighting and rolling around with it and then falls asleep like that. Thats how she sleeps EVERY night, I mean, she's got a box she can go sleep in. Doesn't matter where I've put the mit, she goes and finds it.
@ Raptor. I can picture that in my mind.
I gotta get me one of those.
yeah that's all true however the only lizard whose venom can be dangerous is the gila monster and then again you have to be a total ass to let such a slow creature bite you and then chewRR_Raptor65 said:
so since you're refering to your tegu as "her" I guess you already had her probed?
Lizards can be pretty quickly when they want/need to. The whole laying around and moving slowly thing has to do with energy conservation.
hmm actually it has more to do with heat.. the hotter the weather the faster they can move and no, gila monsters are veeeery slow even in their natural habitat (northern mexico and southern US) where temperatures can reach 50°C now if you're talking about varans, now those are fast (when warm or hot) and will likely bite you or kick you with their razor sharp claws, but they aren't venomous (or at least not dangerously venomous)
EndicarIus
Banned
That's SO cute.
guspav said:
Exactly. If they can't find a good way to regulate their body temperature and get stuck in the heat or cold, they'll have to just laze around in order to avoid frying or freezing to death, respectively. That's the way I've always understood it, anyway. And if gila monsters are incapable of moving swiftly when necessary, how do they manage to catch anything and avoid being killed?
they don't usually hunt (chase prey), they eat mostly eggs (both of other repriles and birds) and rats/mice newborns and they avoid beng hunted by other animals simply because they have those distinctive colors on their skins= red/yellow-black which means to all other animals: "caution: venomous, do not approach/try to eat"okiN said:
Fair enough, I concede that gila monsters are slow. That doesn't apply to all lizards, though. >:I
RR_Raptor65
Knight
When I first got her, but thats backed up by the fact she doesn't have the massive jowels that the males do. And thats she doesn't make a big issue when people go near her basking box.guspav said:
But yeah, once shes warmed up, she can easily outrun me for a short distance, and she walks more like a Crocodile than the typical 'lizard walk'.
EDIT:
Gory picture for you all! Its not the worst bite shes given me, but its the bloodiest...
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