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Heres that non varanid pic I was telling you about. This was from a reverse trio, in situ. One male went into a crack, the female seemed to seek the safty of the other male. She coiled on top of him and did this. Both males were very mature males and the female was gravid. I post this here as another example of behaviors that animals do not do, hahahahahaha OH unless you see them doing them. Cheers

Thanks for the awesome pic. How cool to be able to see that stuff in person. If you saw my post about the rattlers below, could you explain the rattle thing again?
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Sure Mike, you do understand if you get your bum out here, I we could have a ball, there are mammals too.

I believe it was a pic of a reverse rattle. That is, they normally taper from pointed, when small, to wider, as they grow. But if they experience servere times, the base of the rattle can shrink and the rattle segments can indeed become smaller. So in a sense, their rattle is like tree rings. It gives you an idea of the history of the snake.

So again, babies have tiny rattles, as they grow the rattles become larger. Young growing individuals have a tapered rattle. Mature non growing adults and a rattle where the segments are the same size. Individuals experiencing hard times have rattle segments smaller then the previous rattles. I hope you understand. Cheers

Sorry, I just have to respond to this post - I don't even own any lizards (will try out some monitors in the future). That's a great photo. I see my scrubs do exactly the same thing in their cage very consistently, and it's not because they have to. In my pic, the female is the one on top, which is pretty typical for my pair. Usually, when I open the cage door to snap a pic, they get interested in me and move - I occasionally see them with their heads right on top of each other but I don't have a good pic. My girlfriend says they like each other. I tell her that's impossible because snakes are dumb and don't interact with each other ever. In fact, I'm not supposed to keep them together because they bite each other and stress each other out.

-Rolf