Doing sleepy lizard fieldwork in the Mid Murray today involved bountiful encounters with goofy fellas as usual
This guy is somehow missing the keratin on most of his large tail scales, revealing the bony scutes (osteoderms) beneath. We’re not exactly sure how this occurred, hopefully he’s not scuffed up too bad, but it is quite cool to look at
Then there’s grumps over here, sucking on his pacifier. We named him Cupcake after his delightful personality
Cupcake is now getting clamped because he’s naughty and bit someone (actually just taking a measurement of head depth)
Polite gentleman patiently getting his tail measured (not a sleepy lizard, doesn’t want to be here)
whenever I see Jinkles (my lizard) I point at him and say “LIZARD!!” aloud. Because he is a lizard, you see. other lizard-owners know what tf I’m talking about