spiky dinosaur

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I do not know, he was sold to me as a "standard" (the reptile store sometimes sells different colors (but not morphas), and at a reptile show I saw a leatherback; but I doubt they are so much into genetics here, and might sell any dragon that is not looking very much different as "standard").
I looked for a belly picture, these are the best I have, but I can easily take one directly from his underside.

His beard looks pretty uniform so probably not a Dunner. He still has that rangey spikey looks though. That's my favorite

 

[ChileanTaco]

His beard looks pretty uniform

To me also. I always think it looks like a knight's armor

He has learned that he can present the side of his head he likes to get a rub
Took him quite long to try that, but he now does this often as he's generally a guy who remembers well things that work. Like: His transport box was only an issue the first time, or pooping always at the same spot keeps things cleaner.
Btw.: Today was a "no bug day", but he managed to find a dubia hiding in the golliwog (I hadn't placed it there. Was an escapee from hand-feeding.) I saw him suddenly coming down from his basking spot, digging at the base of the golliwog, and then clearly crushing a carapace. Good catch

 

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To me also. I always think it looks like a knight's armor

He has learned that he can present the side of his head he likes to get a rub
Took him quite long to try that, but he now does this often as he's generally a guy who remembers well things that work. Like: His transport box was only an issue the first time, or pooping always at the same spot keeps things cleaner.
Btw.: Today was a "no bug day", but he managed to find a dubia hiding in the golliwog (I hadn't placed it there. Was an escapee from hand-feeding.) I saw him suddenly coming down from his basking spot, digging at the base of the golliwog, and then clearly crushing a carapace. Good catch

They like to hunt. They are also movement triggered like a cat or a fish. The safest thing a bug can do is sit perfectly still.

 

[ChileanTaco]

They like to hunt.

Normally yes... Mine normally isn't going after bugs further away than 30 cm or so from him (unless they are in his bowl). No vision problems, however, but not that food-motivated. He sees the bug - but just not goes after it. Same with seeing me holding the bug container and working with it. He gets excited, but won't come.
"No bug day", however, I think, made him making this exception

(When I remember when I had a sand lizard, that was an avid hunter. Bugs in - in this setup, "bioactive" but wasn't knowing it's called like that, I wasn't using a bowl - , and off she goes! That one was a female, slightly disabled after a lawnmower accident - was from the wild, and that's why I had her until she recovered and I released her.)

They are also movement triggered like a cat or a fish. The safest thing a bug can do is sit perfectly still.

Yes - if there is a bug not moving much, he's leaving it behind. He carefully selects what he grabs, also from the bowl. Also, when he accidentally bites a larger bug (i.e. superworm, that's the only "long" feeder I have) into two halves, he eats the half that had fallen down only if it's the front part that's trying to crawl away. If it's the other part that has fallen down, however, he normally won't eat it (but recently I've seen him twice waiting and thinking a moment and then grabbing that too).
He appears to me not like "movement-triggered" in the way "moves - I have to eat that!" (reaction of our fish when somebody approaches as if feeding, or of course cats playing with toys) but rather like "hungry - but I'm not eating that, isn't moving enough so it's not appetizing".
Movement like in cat toys - I bought some for him, and selected those that are beardie-safe so no feathers, no bells or other small parts - does not get him interested. I also showed him me interacting with the cat toys while he was outside of the enclosure - he looked briefly, and rather went on exploring.

 

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Normally yes... Mine normally isn't going after bugs further away than 30 cm or so from him (unless they are in his bowl). No vision problems, however, but not that food-motivated. He sees the bug - but just not goes after it. Same with seeing me holding the bug container and working with it. He gets excited, but won't come.
"No bug day", however, I think, made him making this exception

(When I remember when I had a sand lizard, that was an avid hunter. Bugs in - in this setup, "bioactive" but wasn't knowing it's called like that, I wasn't using a bowl - , and off she goes! That one was a female, slightly disabled after a lawnmower accident - was from the wild, and that's why I had her until she recovered and I released her.)


Yes - if there is a bug not moving much, he's leaving it behind. He carefully selects what he grabs, also from the bowl. Also, when he accidentally bites a larger bug (i.e. superworm, that's the only "long" feeder I have) into two halves, he eats the half that had fallen down only if it's the front part that's trying to crawl away. If it's the other part that has fallen down, however, he normally won't eat it (but recently I've seen him twice waiting and thinking a moment and then grabbing that too).
He appears to me not like "movement-triggered" in the way "moves - I have to eat that!" (reaction of our fish when somebody approaches as if feeding, or of course cats playing with toys) but rather like "hungry - but I'm not eating that, isn't moving enough so it's not appetizing".
Movement like in cat toys - I bought some for him, and selected those that are beardie-safe so no feathers, no bells or other small parts - does not get him interested. I also showed him me interacting with the cat toys while he was outside of the enclosure - he looked briefly, and rather went on exploring.

My guys don't do toys either