Alex going gravid?

[BPSabelhaus]

Woah, she is wide!

"I'M NOT PREGNANT OR FAT!" lol

 

[LarryTheLizard]

"I'M NOT PREGNANT OR FAT!" lol

LMAOOO

 

[ChileanTaco]

I mean lol

That's interesting to see - yours has single spikes on the side? Mine has double spikes there, so each is up-and-down like on barb wire.
Has this something to do with Alex being a leatherback, I assume? I'm really interested, so this is not a rhetorical question.
(If you don't know what I mean, I can show a comparison photo.)

Slept in her burrow.

Looks just like mine sleeps Curled up into a half circle, next/ behind a stone or wooden piece, tail usually hidden, and then feet dug in a bit. And then when the lights go on, pancaking in the cave for a while before coming out.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Here is, for comparison, the double row of spikes on the side Taco.
I had thought this is normal and then saw the photo from Alex.
As I only once had the chance to briefly interact with a leatherback dragon (and hadn't paid attention to that detail), I'm really wondering.

 

[xp29]

Here is, for comparison, the double row of spikes on the side Taco.
I had thought this is normal and then saw the photo from Alex.
As I only once had the chance to briefly interact with a leatherback dragon (and hadn't paid attention to that detail), I'm really wondering.

Leatherbacks have a huge reduction in spikes. Their sides and head as well. And the ones they do have are much much smaller.
All in all it makes them much more pleasant to handle.

 

[ChileanTaco]

@xp29
Generally I was knowing that - often very much visible on the back and neck shield.
Was just surprised to see there one row instead of the two I found so "typical beardie".

So yours also do have a single row?

 

[xp29]

@xp29
Generally I was knowing that - often very much visible on the back and neck shield.
Was just surprised to see there one row instead of the two I found so "typical beardie".

So yours also do have a single row?

Yup

 

[ChileanTaco]

@xp29

Interesting I handled a leatherback once briefly (at a exhibition) and the row(s) on the side was the thing I did not pay attention to I've to admit.

 

[xp29]

@xp29

Interesting I handled a leatherback once briefly (at a exhibition) and the row(s) on the side was the thing I did not pay attention to I've to admit.

Well we don't know to pay attention until we do know
But now I bet the next one you encounter that'll be the 1st thing you look at

 

[xp29]

@xp29
Generally I was knowing that - often very much visible on the back and neck shield.
Was just surprised to see there one row instead of the two I found so "typical beardie".

So yours also do have a single row?

Stumpy is a leatherback also, here are a couple pictures of his side spikes

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Rockin the elf on the shelf legs there lol

 

[IAmAMirage]

Leatherbacks have a huge reduction in spikes. Their sides and head as well. And the ones they do have are much much smaller.
All in all it makes them much more pleasant to handle.

I like the spiky feeling though lol

 

[xp29]

I like the spiky feeling though lol

I do also, the Dunners are my favorite morph. They are extra spikey

 

[ChileanTaco]

I like the spiky feeling though lol

Also very much! Don't think he's overly / annoyingly scratchy, just would not put him under my shirt Not only to protect me, but also as these spikes catch on fabric. Thus I also don't use such as blankets for him.

(The scratchiest part were his nails when he was a bit younger, and not that active - so despite having plenty of access to stones and rough surfaces that would file his nails down, he was just not running so much - and not that used to how to hold onto a human, and how getting out and in of the enclosure works... Then I got a lot of scratches, some really deep. But now, an adult, he knows how this works and if I get scratches at all they are just on the surface of the skin.)

 

[BPSabelhaus]

So comfy