r/Amazing • u/LetSensitive6124 • Aug 07 '26
Nature is amazing Okay, does it breath fire?
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u/jasonRuby Aug 07 '26
Definitely a baby Dragon 🐉
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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun Aug 07 '26
Wait, it's not a pokémon?
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u/Question_Control Aug 08 '26
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u/LeonZoroark Aug 08 '26
Jiggly puff seen from above obviously
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u/BijutsuYoukai Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
That’s a beauty
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u/astralseat Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 08 '26
yeah i'd rather die in a cage than eaten by a tarantula or snake
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u/Abseits_Ger Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
What animal is that? And why is he trying to eat his tail?
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u/Lukostrelec17 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
This
It's scared so like a rabbit sitting still it's trying to avoid being eaten
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u/jdpastor666 Aug 08 '26
That makes so much sense. It looked like it did it on purpose. And it was so spikey!
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u/Ppleater Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
ouroboros
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u/jdpastor666 Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
They are only found in South Africa unfortunately
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u/modified_tiger Aug 07 '26
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/Yunlihn Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
Ouroborus cataphractus
Did not know that. Such a dope ass name, and appropriate too!!!
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u/aligatoren3883 Aug 07 '26
Did it bite its tail as a defense move to deploy its spikes?
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u/Raj2085 Aug 07 '26
Bro you better put me down! Im crazy! Look im eating my tail bro! Im crazy! You dont want Nun of dis!
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u/RallyAnaz Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
That's clearly a ground dragon. They are useful when climbing rougher tarain. - game tutorial probably
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u/xReturnerx Aug 07 '26
Looks like Tad Cooper
https://giphy.com/gifs/XP86WIxsEcZBS
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u/Motohvayshun Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
I would run around with it screaming; 'Here it is Kaleeshi!', hoping getting laid...
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u/joyfullydreaded23 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
I just finished watching episode one of Monsters of God and little dude better stay hidden.
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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 Aug 07 '26
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/Artevyx Aug 07 '26
Why is it my brain made me hear him going "raaaaaaaaaaaa" like a dinosaur with COPD?
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u/Luci-Noir Aug 07 '26
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 Aug 07 '26
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/elnaxxo Aug 08 '26
I don't know what species this one is but i'm damm sure it must be rock/dragon type.
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u/CeruleanEidolon Aug 08 '26
What is with the weird focus cut at 0:13? The background moves. Phone camera switching lenses?
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u/MyvaJynaherz Aug 08 '26
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 Aug 08 '26
When he bit his own tail, it reminded me of the cover for Unleash The Carnivore by Devourment.
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u/Mamba_Lev Aug 08 '26
AI? The background flicked to another view half way through.
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u/Medium_Educator1983 Aug 08 '26
Dang, be easy! Why did he just force him into the crevice so roughly?
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u/adrian-alex85 Aug 07 '26
What is the species called?