so many scaly boys

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[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[nattousan]

#ratatouille

[justnoodlefishthings]

licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you licks you

[inatherps]

Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus)

Observed by saskia_thomas, CC BY-NC

[yeahponcho]

pat him gently

[gatoburr0]

Went to a reptile meetup today at a local mall where there were plenty of big snakes and iguanas and other big intimidating reptiles and this girl was just watching the whole thing in silence with her hands closed up (as if she’s holding something) then one of the hosts saw her and pointed at her asking her if she had any reptiles, so she just quietly looked down at her hands and opened them up and there was the smallest most adorable yet ugly little baby leopard gecko just one McDonald’s sauce big everyone (and I mean everyone) erupted in awwwwwwwsss

[gatoburr0]

The baby in question

[sunfish-exotics]

They were a bit better behaved this morning!

01 is still spicy tho

[herpsandbirds]

Midland Smooth Softshell Turtle (Apalone mutica calvata), female, family Trionychidae, Iowa, USA

photograph by Jeff LeClere

[mlarayoukai-archive]

cat

[herpsandbirds]

Cork Bark Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus pietschmanni), family Gekkonidae, endemic to a small area of eastern Madagascar

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Shannon’s Reptile Room

[great-and-small]

A tragic scene:

My turtle notices the blueberry I put out for him but in his excitement he drops it into his pond. He considers a recovery mission on his own, then turns to me for assistance instead.

Fear not- the berry was retrieved and the turtle was able to enjoy it as intended

[into-the-fandom-verse]

let’s warm up with mama

[kaijutegu]

Begging for an egging

[kaijutegu]

I love how she immediately changed what I was trying to train (orange means you get food in your enclosure) to "If I'm eating in my enclosure, I must be touching orange the whole time."

She always has one foot on the orange when she's eating in there. She could take it elsewhere, but then she wouldn't be touching orange anymore, and that's not ok for some reason.

Unless, of course, she's eating outside the enclosure, and then anything goes.

(If you have a big lizard it is a really good idea to target train for in-enclosure feeding. It's a very good way to prevent accidental nips and jumping every time the cage door opens. It also helps keep them from unnecessary stress bc it straight up tells them what to expect and when food is on the way. And it's the easiest thing in the world to do- it just takes consistency. Put down target, feed, remove target. It took Jima less than a week to learn that the orange lick mat means food.)

[spinachgargoyle]

Lord Spinach decrees: say what you want. Truly ask for it. Doing so will help you make it so. 🦎💚

[barksbog]

i love lizard

[inatherps]

Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)

Observed by dnoell, CC BY-NC

[kaijutegu]

So Jima's real excited about the Bayou Blend reptilinks...