>>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.

As far as I know, emotions originate from the limbic system in the mid-brain, a structure that reptiles lack by definition. On questionign regarding other issues, my vet has indicated that reptiles are VERY routine-oriented animals and have difficulty/take time adjusting to even small changes (think acclimation period). He suggests their daily routine is regualr enough one could "set a watch to it". As a result, my animals do NOT observe daylight savings time.
In dealing with so many Uros I have seen in numerous cases where separating animals that have been together for a period but are/have become hostile to each other has had negative implications for both (for short term anyway), apparently due to the change in daily environment.

You must be careful not to attribute your feelings to the animals you deal with or otherwise meaningless events in the world. If you impose your feelings on things that lack them or events that are unassociated, you can quickly read more into trivial or meaningless circumstances than is truly there.

A minor advisory for future safety- if an animal is "on the out", the last thing I would do is combine them with another healthy animal. Even if fecal tests come back negative, there's lots of nasty things that aren't necessarily detectable or even looked for in those scans (think virus). You run the risk of losing them all in that case.
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uromastyx geyri (Saharan/Nigerian), hardwickii (Indian),
macfadyeni (Somalian), ocellata (Sudanese), ornata (Ornate), benti pseudophilbyi

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