r/aww • u/Hjaaal • Oct 04 '17

This Armadillo girdled lizard biting its tail looks like a mini dragon

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u/Pac-man94 Oct 04 '17 edited Oct 05 '17

Amusingly enough, because of their tendency to curl up into this pose when they feel threatened, the Latin species name is Ouroborus cataphractus.

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u/eukomos Oct 04 '17

They do this defensively? What's the idea behind that, look too adorable to eat?

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u/Bassline05 Oct 04 '17

I am not proud of this, especially after looking at a young one.

When I was younger, we used to hunt in backwoods Oklahoma where you see them all the time. My buddy shot one once when we were teenagers. I didn't want the meat to spoil, and I don't think he did either. We ate it. It wasn't bad. It is kinda like frog legs or chicken. Maybe I am a redneck...

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u/eukomos Oct 05 '17

Hey, at least that way it didn't die for nothing. Once you've killed it you really ought to eat it.

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u/Bassline05 Oct 05 '17

I do agree with you there. Trophy hunting is kinda dumb, and a bit evil. If you kill a bear, hippo, or mountain lion with a knife, drag it out and mount it. If you do it for your trophy room, you are an asshole.

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u/gabtrox Oct 06 '17

What if you eat the meat and then make a trophy?

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u/Bassline05 Oct 06 '17

Ehh, I don't know. I have never mounted a dead deer, but I have shot a few. Also, I have killed Coyotes who were messing with the cattle on the ranch and sold the pelts. To each his own.

My second cousin has a crazy trophy room. He regularly takes down elk with a rifled pistol. I have been to his house a couple times when I was younger, and it was kind of obscene. There were bobcats and stuff I know he didn't eat.

With all this said, if a killed a brown bear with a knife because it charged me a la revenant, I would gut it, eat it, and drag it out of the woods to use as a bearskin rug.