This is a really random thing to discuss, but I'm taking an Intro to Psychology course and I have to conduct a small experiment involving behavior conditioning, and I thought it'd be interesting to involve one of my bearded dragons! But the problem is, I have no idea what to "train" them to do. Obviously it's nothing grand, just some small behavior. Like how some dragons only go poop in the bathtub, or how one of my boys used to dive towards his food bowl as soon as I turned on his UVB lights in the morning.
So basically what I'm asking is: Are there any behaviors or tricks that you've taught your dragons, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that could possibly be taught to other dragons?
(I know that one dragon's personality can vastly differ from another's, but they are smart little creatures!)
My Petsmart sells crickets in a box - you pop open a little door in the box for the crickets to crawl out of. At first, my beardie would just wander around and hunt a cricket when he saw them, but as soon as he figured out they were coming from the door, he learned to sit and wait just outside the door and he would grab them out the second he saw an antenna! After that, I could just set the box in his cage and he would plop himself down right outside the door and wait.
I trained one of my dragons to only poop in one area of (easy to clean) vinyl floor in the mudroom. Repitition and routine was the key. Started by using baths at the same time every day, then just put him in the room at the same time every day and he couldn't leave (within reason) without going. If I was gone for a few days, he would wait until he was in his spot to go rather than go in his tank with very few exceptions.