Uncomfortable looking tail positions
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Carloscruz
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What is that thing
nightanole
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Beautiful Red tegu (or black and white getting ready to shed)-- Looks massive!
Could you imagine a "wind-up" whip from a tail like that? WOW!
Thanks for sharing.
You dont really get tail whips. But they are really good at "death rolling". So you are trying to pickup 14 pounds of digger that can also just death roll right out of your arms. Its a lot easier to just do the hand over hand method with the beardies...
Cool about the tail whips.. I had Savannah monitor who was very tame but on occasion would share his whipping power. Tegus might be different. Never had one or knew of someone having one. Just watch the whipping power on TV invasive species in Florida. But, those seem to only be black and white.
Great shot!!!
Great shot!!!
nightanole
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Cool about the tail whips.. I had Savannah monitor who was very tame but on occasion would share his whipping power. Tegus might be different. Never had one or knew of someone having one. Just watch the whipping power on TV invasive species in Florida. But, those seem to only be black and white.
Great shot!!!
We tegu tails can be ripped off, or they can squeeze and pop them off themselves. And they dont grow back. So odds are they have a bit of a mind set to only whip as a last resort. Mine just uses it as a helicopter in order to not get picked up lol.
Klyde O'Scope
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Did you fold on the dotted line?
It never ceases to amaze me the positions they'll assume for sleeping.
My beardie, Ol' Stinkeye, has been sleeping like this since around T-giving, sometimes with his tail bent like your tegu's.
How the blank can that be comfortable ‽ ‽ ‽
Since I did not have a Tegu ---had to look some stuff up. Found this:
https://tegusfromaroundtheworld.weebly.com/regenerated-and-dropping-tails.html#:~:text=The bones and vertebrae do not regenerate. Tegus,tails usually grow back in one solid color.
https://tegusfromaroundtheworld.weebly.com/regenerated-and-dropping-tails.html#:~:text=The bones and vertebrae do not regenerate. Tegus,tails usually grow back in one solid color.
Klyde O'Scope
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Interesting article (and biology)!
nightanole
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Beautiful!
So maybe there is a point where regeneration stops happening. I have seen Argentine tail regrowth which ended up being about 1/2 of original tail with the lack of pigmentation.
Thanks again for the picture--- If you are in So Cal and need a baby sitter-- free of charge.
So maybe there is a point where regeneration stops happening. I have seen Argentine tail regrowth which ended up being about 1/2 of original tail with the lack of pigmentation.
Thanks again for the picture--- If you are in So Cal and need a baby sitter-- free of charge.
Klyde O'Scope
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Do the other lizards make fun of those who've lost their tails?
KIDDING!
KIDDING! 
nightanole
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nightanole---- Is that you or off internet? I have seen this tegu before -- I think they were videos.
Its the famous red tegu MacGyver the Lizard
Carloscruz
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I should get one I have wanted to free range my pets but I have dogs and cat but with that I could
nightanole
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Did you fold on the dotted line?
It never ceases to amaze me the positions they'll assume for sleeping.
My beardie, Ol' Stinkeye, has been sleeping like this since around T-giving, sometimes with his tail bent like your tegu's.
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How the blank can that be comfortable ‽ ‽ ‽
Klyde O'Scope
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Oh, are we going down that
https://www.google.com/search?q=fun...WBHTQIHZIrATYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1024&bih=625
nightanole
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Oh, are we going down thatrabbit holebeardie burrow?
https://www.google.com/search?q=fun...WBHTQIHZIrATYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1024&bih=625
Oh no i have discovered etsy beardy couches, so many of them.
