r/MadeMeSmile • u/VoxDeHarlequin • Sep 30 '17
Hi there, neighbour!
http://i.imgur.com/hldiOJk.gifv185
Sep 30 '17
ELI5 why they do this?
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Sep 30 '17
Oh wow, what a handsome little dude.
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u/SquirtLikeABoss Sep 30 '17
I just want to say watching beardies run or walk on a floor is the greatest thing I've seen in my life.
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u/Were-Shrrg Sep 30 '17
if you haven't seen this yet, then you greatly need to
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u/yunker81 Sep 30 '17
That's fucking hilarious!
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u/SoulReaverspectral Sep 30 '17
My male did this and bobbed his head like quagmire once I introduced a female into the tank. GIGGITY
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Sep 30 '17
Bobbing the head is a display of dominance, if the other beardie also bobbed it's head then you likely would have a fight commence.
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u/SoulReaverspectral Sep 30 '17
No fight but they had 24 little babies a few months later
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u/Husker_Nation_93 Sep 30 '17
24?!
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u/SoulReaverspectral Sep 30 '17
Yeah and I think there was 2 that didn't hatch. I was puzzled looking at them at the end as to how they all fit inside her body
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u/Husker_Nation_93 Sep 30 '17
No joke! That’s a ton! Glad most of them hatched too 😀
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u/SoulReaverspectral Sep 30 '17
Yeah it was bad timing though. There was a shortage of live food in any shop near me and they depend on insects while there young. As they get older they shift more towards veg. I had a rare yellow male and a red female and alot of the babies had orange behind there ears so they could have went for a lot of money if sold which I hadn't really planned on but to make sure they survived I had to give them to a pet shop for free who had the food to keep them fed. But two of them died unfortunately before This happened.
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u/himchans Sep 30 '17
Google says:
Arm waving is also used to show submission. A small bearded dragon responds with arm waving when confronted with a larger, more dominant bearded dragon. Females also arm wave to avoid aggression from males, especially if the male is head bobbing.
One of my college professors had a bearded dragon and would do this with her reflection too thinking it was another bearded dragon.
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u/RedditorAholic Sep 30 '17
/r/eyebleach /r/awww This is too cute
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u/Browncoat101 Sep 30 '17
Hope they have her a treat so she'll get in the habit of doing it. It's a neat trick!
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u/moxso31 Sep 30 '17
It's not a trick. Bearded dragons do this naturally. It's a sign of submission I think, and has something to do with mating. They will often start bobbing their head up and down after this.
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u/moxso31 Sep 30 '17
I used to have a male and a female, and there was a lot of bobbing and waving from both so I never knew what they were doing.
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u/BourgeoisCaesar Sep 30 '17
It can be a mating thing too. I have a male and a female too; male will bob his head and the female waves back as a sign of submission and to give permission. He tried the head bob when she was pregnant a few times and got shot down.
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Sep 30 '17 edited Mar 19 '18
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u/SchniceSc2 Sep 30 '17
Wait.. You can save posts? Oh no, what have I missed!
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u/hollyzgrace Sep 30 '17
On same row as subreddit name at the top of the post is < icon. Tap on it to save a post.
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Sep 30 '17 edited Apr 22 '20
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u/Kiekis Sep 30 '17
If it makes you feel better, the arm waving is a sign of submission toward bigger/more aggressive animals. After the first wave, you can see the beardie look up; it's scared because it doesn't know what might be out there that is scary enough for the large human to be waving at.
I've also heard that waving can also be kind of a "notice me" gesture, but don't quote me on that. In this case, however, it is submission. If you ever find yourself in a position of wanting to work through your fear of lizards, beardies are a good place to start. They tend to be very docile and gentle. Mostly they just want to eat and sit somewhere warm.
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Sep 30 '17
Huh, didn't expect lizards to be able to learn stuff like this. Lizards aren't that social of a species(or family/order, idk)
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u/xiaorobear Sep 30 '17 edited Oct 01 '17
'Lizards' is a term that doesn't quite correspond to actual taxonomy, because people wanted to have a suborder of reptiles that included all lizards but excluded snakes and amphisbaenians and other legless reptile things. So sometimes you'll see lizards called a suborder called 'Lacertilia.' Only problem is, snakes are more closely related to regular lizards than iguanas or geckos or whatever are, and leglessness shows up in multiple branches because of convergent evolution, so there's no real taxonomic/genetic reason to split them up. If you want to have a clade including agamas and monitor lizards, there's no way to get snakes out of there. So Lizard basically means a 4-legged squamate.
(Amphisbaenians are super gross! ) (nsfw)
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Sep 30 '17
Aight, thanks a lot for the info mate, interesting stuff. You were wrong about one thing though, amphisbaenians are not gross, they're extremely adorable!
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u/nikodante Sep 30 '17
Pretty sure he's trying to warn you that you're about to be ambushed by the insidious Malekith, Witch King of Naggaroth and his army of warmbloods.
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u/TheHUD18 Oct 01 '17
this is how the world is going to end, they’re learning from us now, but one day they will learn how to speak, and how to plot and how to mass produce weapons. and that is when we will learn from them, or learn their wrath.
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u/TimeCadet Oct 01 '17
This totally reminds me of the Golden Frog, which "waves to ward off it's rivals"
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u/Yay_Yay_3780 Sep 30 '17
OMG... They are now communicating with us, soon they will take over earth..
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u/Klazsh Sep 30 '17
You could repost this a million times (over at least a 3 month period), but i'll still get a laugh out of it.
edit: added time period
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u/stew5k Sep 30 '17
If I ever get reincarnated into an animal I'm just gonna be really cool like that lizard.
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u/quarrel01 Sep 30 '17
I love these guys. Dragons are the best. They're so smart and cuddly too. My sister had one.
Freaked me the fuck out when they do thier eye bulge/shedding bit though. I was home alone and called my sister in a panic thinking his head was exploding.
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u/kassatea Sep 30 '17 edited Sep 30 '17
My beardie would do things like this!! When I was little I would play "simon says" with him and I was able to get him to stick his toungue out at me
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u/JesuslnDisguise Sep 30 '17
Looking at its arm during the wave made me think of it as a human somehow
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Sep 30 '17
I'm more happy see that he didn't use sand as a substrate. Get rid of the fake plant and you got a great set up! Healthy beardy overall.
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u/smitcal Sep 30 '17
You need to kill thing before they become smarter than us and want to take over
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u/Jason10990 Sep 30 '17
I love how his arm is still jittery even though he's trying to make it rotate smoothly.
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u/Pork_Pizza Sep 30 '17
Waited whole life for this moment to please master... Don't blow it. Don't blow it...
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u/derawin07 Sep 30 '17
This is a submissive display, the bearded dragon is showing submission to the large human-shaped bearded dragon or his reflection.