The head-bobbing threat display is used by many kinds of lizards, mostly unrelated to each other, all over the world. I call that a mystery.
Here a young bearded dragon is trying to show a plastic doll who’s boss. He pays no attention to the cat until the cat pays attention to him. [Note: Human standing by to make sure no one gets bitten.]
That’s a very pretty cat. Cute lizard, too.
There are lizards around here that do push-ups, as a dominance display. I’d elaborate, but whenever I see that, I get scared and run away. 🙂
The thing that fascinates me about this phenomenon is that the lizards who do it are not related to one another. All kinds of lizards, all over the world, head-bob. Very strange!
Yeah, that is strange. Like I said, the local lizards do push-ups and there’s an exceptional comedy to a tiny lizard trying to intimidate a human by showing off its upper body strength.
I found a Swift in my mailbox, last week. I think someone stuffed it in there as a prank. It was terrified and ran to the back of the mailbox when I opened the door. I finally was able to brush it out of there using the stalk of a nearby weed. It hit the ground running and quickly disappeared into the brush. I felt sorry for the little critter.
I’ve had a lot of pet swifts. They do very well in a terrarium (one pair had a mess of eggs, a.ll of which hatched).
They are ubiquitous in these parts. I’m probably within 10 yards of a Swift as a type. In fact, it’s probably rare for me not to be within 10 yards of a Swift.
Mine made very nice pets.
The one I rescued from my mailbox called me names. 🙂