My Lizard Is In Awe Of My Mating Prowess
We have a bit of a male-bonding thing going on
The species of our pet lizard makes mating signals with their hands and with “dance” movements. When I run, I warm-up and warm-down outside our front window, and he’s in awe. He’s trying desperately to learn my moves, but I’m not sure that the lizard brain is up to the task.
We’ve had a pet lizard living with us for more than 2 years. I’ve learnt how he thinks, and he’s clearly very impressed with my mating habits.
It’s hard to imagine, but lizards make interesting pets, at least, the type we have is a good pet. It is a protected native animal of Australia — a Bearded Dragon — for which we have a wildlife permit to keep at home.
They can be toilet-trained!
They aren’t exactly cuddly, and they sometimes stay motionless for hours, but they know their way around, and amazingly they can be toilet-trained.
The fact that they can be toilet-trained gave me my initial clues about what senses they have and how their brain works.
The four Ps of the lizard brain
Lizards evolved on earth about 250 million years ago.
