How cute he is 🙂❤️🦎

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Moments like this 🥰🦎

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So crazy about his sweets 🥰🍌🦎

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Just reach out for happiness 😄🍌🦎

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Madagascar day gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis)

Yesterday I adopted three geckos.😄 A Madagascar day gecko and two leopard geckos. The day gecko secretly watches me from a safe hiding place while I sit and work at my desk.😇 You don't get to see the other two and I don't want to disturb them.🤫 Unfortunately, the previous owner kept both species together in one terrarium. But now I'm taking care of a species-approbiate home.🤗

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Instagram recently doesn't work that good. As always when they implement new features. I just found this capture too cute but couldn't upload it as wanted... but here it is 🤍

Loki and Berenike and a golden pot of zophobas. While Loki easily catches her meal, Berenike seems to be a bit confused. She doesn't hunt but walks around looking for something. She's actually looking for prey. You can see the same hunting behavior in my post # 330, which you can also find on my website megagroundsloth.de by searching for "lunatic gila monster".
There I also explain the social behavior. Berenike doesn't like fighting and she can hear the other zophobas outside. So she prefers to look for them. In the middle of the video you can "see" Nameless catching a worm from the left. She slowly sneaked to the pot and waited for a good moment. She twitched with tension. When I finished the recording, she was startled and gone in a flash. Arsinoë just climbs around in the background.

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Loki runs outside in her pajamas as soon as she hears that an isopod is in the neighborhood.🤍

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A reptile that hugs you is only looking for your warmth or tries to eat you.

Kleptothermy, theft of warmth, is a form of thermoregulation. It occurs in a wide variety of animal species, including human. For example when we cuddle up because it's cold.

Reptiles* cannot create body heat themselves. Their metabolism is dependent on external heat sources.

When your reptile hugs it body against you, it certainly feels safe. But it doesn't do it out of affection, but because you are warm.

It's still a nice feeling.

You should always keep in mind, that it's better for the animal not to take it out of the terrarium.

My leopard geckos are about to winter rest. I initiate a near-natural rest at a temperature of around 12°C.
It's important to get an accurate picture of the animals health beforehand. This includes taking fecal samples, scanning the body for abnormalities and assessing the strength of the animal.

*From a cladistic point of view, which is the scientific standard today, the reptiles as a monophyletic taxon, i.e. as a natural (complete) descent group (Reptilia as clade), should at least also contain the birds, which are warm-blooded.

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Banana Joe, as fit as twenty years ago. Only better looking. 💪

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Truman Shows Up

Full video from 2016!❤️
Enjoy!✌️

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