I was talking with a vet the other day, he said that lizards in gerneral are very emotional and more social than most people realize. That if tank mates are attached to one another and one dies, the other is likely to lose its will to live. I was asking about my two uros, because shortly after Zazu died, Tiki began starving himself. Yet, his fecal was fine. His health was fine; he just wouldn't eat. My boyfriend and i syringe fed him a mixture of juiced veggies, tried baby food and his favorite hibiscus, but with no luck. He eventually passed away. In the end, we had him with my boyfriend's red niger, Koopa. To our complete surprise Koopa took Tiki under his wing, so to speak. In Tiki's final days Koopa was near his side 24/7, even propping Tiki's head up with his arm when Tiki was too weak. We'd never seen anything like it, much less expected it. The morning after Tiki passed away, Koopa frantically ran around the tank looking for him. When he realized Tiki was gone he whipped his tail a few times and crawled over to the exact spot where Tiki had passed and did not move from it the entire day. I was just wandering if anyone else had ever witnessed this same sort of behavior?

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