Last night I took the time to waatch my little Ctenosauirus
something-or-other (I'm not sure which kind anymore, he might be a similis but he's not growing into the similis configuration).
Anyway, I started watching his eye that was facing me. It was
fascinating to watch his eye dart back and forth, up and down, and especiaally his iris that suddenly grew and then suddenly shrunk again, and then grew again. I must have spent 1/2 hour at that observation. Very interesting. He has that brownish orange sclera that is so cool looking. He was standing stock-still, but there was a lot going on in his head.
BTW he had a couple of small prey items in there with him, which might explain why his eyes were so active.
Watching him, I figured out why crane flies have such incredibly
long lege - when a predator takes a bite at one, the animal gets a leg while the crane fly gets away clean. I think that is an ingenious safety feature for crane flies (my Cten. finally got him, but not until he had tried about 4 times.). I like to put crane flies into this Cten's cage which right now is suitably small. He gets so involved in stalking and pouncing at them.
BTW, this little guy, who still has a few flecks of green on him, loves to bask to excess, as it were. He gets to the edge of the very hot spot, lays down in 110 F, after 10 minutews he starts to pant and look up at the light. Then he moves over to a cooler zone, hangs out there for a while, then goes back to the warm spot to do it all again. He eats and everything and is fairly plump, so I think he's ok. I grabbed him once to take a skin temp on him, and he registered at 105 F.
Roger
