Do leos always use the sneak approach and then do a strike lunge to get mealworms out of a dish or do they at some point realize that all they got to do is reach in with their mouth and just grab a mealie?
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Funny Instincts
ew1074
Dec 04, 2003 12:27 PM
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aimee_s
Dec 04, 2003 12:31 PM
hehe, i also thought that was funny...
my leo is about 7-8 months old and i've been feeding her mealworms since i first got her a few months back. she still does the little sneak approach... she stares and does her tiny robotic movements, and then strikes at the mealworms. 
she usually only does that when she's active. when she's being lazy, she'll do the little robotic head movements while she's staring and then just eat it... sometimes she just eats it when she wants to go back 2 sleep... but most of the time, she does the cute little attack that you were talking about 
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jananicole66
Dec 04, 2003 03:16 PM
Hehe I now have a baby Leo, but I used to ahvea turnip tailed (nasty little critters) and she used to do that too.. but it was funy because she always spent her time stuck on the walls of the tank, and would do the head movements when i put the mealworms in & then lunge off the side of the glass onto the container they were in, making them go flying in all directions.. guess who got to pick through the sand for lost mealworms?
aaronhoare
Dec 04, 2003 04:21 PM
n/p
cheshireycat
Dec 05, 2003 02:58 AM
Well, they can't help but get excited, can they? I find that they stop doing that if I feed mine too much of the same food for a while in a row, but go nuts if I use crickets or mealworms when I've been using the other more.
They're always going to do the lunge thing though, I think, because they want to surprise the worm (mealworms can give some nasty bites and tail pokes) and staring at it and lunging towards the right part of the worm helps out.
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