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mwrinkle Oct 10, 2008 08:33 AM

... to this new animals behavior, when the lights and heat turned on the animal, it warmed up then began a bunch of belly walking in circles and even figure eights. If it was a bee instead of a lizard I would be sure it was telling the nest where some great pollen was. After this display it went and warmed up again then began the usual running around the cage. At this point I took out the cage furniture an dumped in 15 1/4 inch crikets which chased with gusto eating nine of them before settling down. He ate about half a dozen smal butter worms the day before. Then h eleft aturn on the gape vine, which looks like it will be his favorite poop spot. Which stinks since the log will cleaning and disenfecting rather than just scooping turds out of the sand. I left some chopped greens with him, how many of you out there have ones that eat greens. In case none of you read the Beardie forums, my female bearded dragon is not happy with this arrangement. She is beaarding and head bobbing at the cage across the room!

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PHEve Oct 10, 2008 10:04 AM

Most likey you have a male and he is doing what we call Pelvic dragging, they usually do this when fired up and sometimes before they try and mate.

Pretty normal behavior, just seems he's of age to feel a bit amorous , or male-ish , if there was a female there the next step would be to WOO her,,,, lol Sometimes my males do this just to do it,,, heheh.

Probably should move that beardy so she can not see the other lizard, may be stressign her out.
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PHEve / Eve

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