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Just how good is a beardies eyesight. REeason I ask is this evening while sitting outside with both beardies on my knee enjoying a cup of coffee my female all at once scurried over the edge of my leg like she was hiding from something. I started looking where she was looking and it was a plane. NOT a low flying plane but a big jet up a good ways. I started payting attention to her and watching her as was my wife and she did it every time a plane came overhead. Anyone ever had anything like this happen before or similiar story of a bearies eyesight????
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Thomas E Burnham

Well that's proof, and it's true dragons have extremely good eyesight. At times my dragons will start going nuts, and pounding on their cages to get out, and it will all be over this little tiny cricket that got loose earlier in the day making it's way across the room damn crickets!!

Yeah my big boy Foster is terified of his own shadow or anything flying overhead. When I take him outside in the sun, and I simply cast a shadow over him his beard springs out, his mouth gapes wide open, and he's ready for battle. when you have a 24 inch 800 gram male afraid of his shadow it's pretty funny. I just laugh from a distance as I know if my hand went close to Foster when he's scared like that I'd have no fingers left.

yes their eyesight is very good. mine see anything that moves anywhere in the room. i take mine outside also, i live in virginia beach right near a naval air base. they are TERRIFIED of the jets. i try to take em out now when they jets are flying. i think birds of prey are a main predetor of dragons in the wild, it may just be a sense they carry.
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Beach Beardies

3.3.11 bearded dragons
1.0.0 Turquoise x Sunburst Veiled Chameleon
1.1.0 Sugar Gliders
0.1.0 Miss Queen Athena (Cat)

I got one that challeges that,lol, a tiny one person air craft that you can barly see in the sky. So small, you ask your self if that's really an air plane, or if there's something wring with your eyes, as the black speck moves aross the sky. But yeah, mine even ran from a BUTTERFLY that flew over them. Now that's sad.

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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)
0.2.0 Dwarf Hamsters (Tipsy and Bubblegum)
1.0.0 Rose Hair Tarantula (Goopy)
1.0.0 Boyfriend (Brian)