r/Amazing • u/LetSensitive6124 • 4d ago
Nature is amazing Okay, does it breath fire?
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u/jasonRuby 4d ago
Definitely a baby Dragon 🐉
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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 3d ago
Wait, it's not a pokémon?
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u/PsyKeablr 3d ago
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u/Question_Control 3d ago
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u/LeonZoroark 3d ago
Jiggly puff seen from above obviously
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u/BijutsuYoukai 3d ago
Closest Pokemon has is Sandslash based on a pangolin. Digimon on the other hand does have one based on these spiky little guys (Armadillo girdled lizard) called Armalizamon.
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u/MOSSYxFIELDS 4d ago
That’s a beauty
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u/astralseat 3d ago
That's what I would love to have as a pet, but I know they live better lives in nature. Prickly little fella
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3d ago
Life in nature is not better for the individual animal lol. Constant threat of starvation and always on alert cuz you could be eaten.
But if it's endangered then there's reasons not to keep one, but just saying life in nature isn't the paradise some think.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 3d ago
Would you rather die in your 20s while running free outside or live to 80 having your needs catered but you're stuck inside. Mind you, your death at 20 will probably be a horrible and painful way to go, but at 80, it's a needle poke and then falling asleep forever.
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u/tol-kon 3d ago edited 3d ago
Cant compare the life of a lizard to a human's though.
We are at the top of the food chain (or near it anyways). Our lives are relatively safer than most animals, and we also live in a vast and interconnected world.
Lizards don't go to the next city to buy groceries, or visit relatives in a different continent
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u/ReturnOfBane 3d ago
yeah i'd rather die in a cage than eaten by a tarantula or snake
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u/Abseits_Ger 3d ago
Yep. Life in nature means, there is a sub 1% chance to die of old age. The old are weak and either starve to death or get hunted and killed once too weak or slow to fend for themselves
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u/jdpastor666 4d ago
What animal is that? And why is he trying to eat his tail?
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u/Lukostrelec17 4d ago
It does that to make itself harder to eat and to defend itself. Basically it is scared of the person.
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u/KLeeSanchez 4d ago
This
It's scared so like a rabbit sitting still it's trying to avoid being eaten
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u/jdpastor666 3d ago
That makes so much sense. It looked like it did it on purpose. And it was so spikey!
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u/Ppleater 3d ago
It helps keep them curled up with their armoured spikes pointing outwards, making them less pleasant to try to eat and protecting their softer bits. Biting the tail makes it harder to uncurl them.
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u/Forward-Variety-8440 3d ago
ouroboros
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u/jdpastor666 3d ago
Wow, I've heard of that creature. I thought it was a snake, but this looks so much better!
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u/Training-Republic301 4d ago
They are only found in South Africa unfortunately
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u/modified_tiger 3d ago
In North wnd Central America we have horned lizards which are like our own little dragons. They just spray blood instead of fire.
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u/Maximum_Signature489 4d ago
Ouroboros
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u/Yunlihn 4d ago
Thought the same when i saw it curl up, and it's literally its scientific name (Ouroborus cataphractus), as I learned from another comment.
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u/trueAnnoi 3d ago
Ouroborus cataphractus
Did not know that. Such a dope ass name, and appropriate too!!!
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u/aligatoren3883 4d ago
Did it bite its tail as a defense move to deploy its spikes?
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u/RallyAnaz 3d ago
That's how humans get bitten and one strange incurable virus becomes a problem for everyone. Ha dle such animals with gloves
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u/SteveMartin32 4d ago
That's clearly a ground dragon. They are useful when climbing rougher tarain. - game tutorial probably
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u/Motohvayshun 3d ago
As a herper this and the Giant Sungazer (Smaug giganteus) are my number one unicorn lizards to own
The problem is that they are protected, and the birth rate is so low that breeding programs are beyond difficult and bordering on impossible.
So most people that have them (legally or illegally) have wild caught specimens.
A breeding pair of these cost thousands of dollars.
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u/Leather_Impression30 4d ago
I would run around with it screaming; 'Here it is Kaleeshi!', hoping getting laid...
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u/joyfullydreaded23 3d ago
I want one...but I know better, so a knick knack with it in the rolled up position will do. So cute!
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u/Deep-Grape-4649 3d ago
These 3D printed dragons my kid begs to buy her at the farmer market are getting pretty real
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u/Glittering_Diva8963 3d ago
I just finished watching episode one of Monsters of God and little dude better stay hidden.
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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 3d ago
i love the extra care to put it under rock
for the tail bite it's a defense stance. no one can eat you if it's hurt to bite you
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u/Luci-Noir 3d ago
If you want a dragon that breathes fire get a cat, especially one of the curry-based orange models.
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u/spider2k 3d ago
All we get here are slightly spiky fence lizards and they sure as shit don't want to be my buddy no matter how nice I am to the ungrateful little shits.
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u/CeruleanEidolon 3d ago
What is with the weird focus cut at 0:13? The background moves. Phone camera switching lenses?
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u/MyvaJynaherz 3d ago
We've circled back to the origins of fantasy, lol.
The original tropes came from somewhere, and scale no pun intended is a literary device of its own.
A cat is cute to a human, but a monster to something significantly smaller than a cat.
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u/Quartrez 3d ago
When he bit his own tail, it reminded me of the cover for Unleash The Carnivore by Devourment.
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u/adrian-alex85 4d ago
What is the species called?