Understanding your dragon's body language

[kingofnobbys]

Ref
Social and Thermoregulatory Behavior of the Bearded Dragon, ( Amphibolurus barbatus aka P.barbata )
Bayard H. Brattstrom
Copeia Vol. 1971, No. 3 (Sep. 3, 1971), pp. 484-497 (14 pages)
Published by: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1442446?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents


Brattstrom's diagrams follow : a picture is worth a 1000 words , and everyone understands comics , so Brattstrom's comic like diagrams are very good at describing the dozens of dragon behaviours observed ( in easterns , these behaviours are also common to centrals and rankins , and other pogona species native to Australia )

a few missed behaviours
ie
antenna tail ( when a dragon is very alert , often seen when a dragon is having a ball exploring )
alternative armwaves with slow headnod between waves ( female to male )

And expressed as charts :

thermoregulatory chart

 

[kingofnobbys]

But wait …. there's more ….

mating behaviours

headbobbing socially

Social behaviours

aggressive behaviours

 

[kingofnobbys]

And not to forget gaping ( trying to cool down )

ref
Hypoxia progressively lowers thermal gaping thresholds in bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps
Glenn J. Tattersall, Rebecca M. Gerlach
Journal of Experimental Biology 2005 208: 3321-3330; doi: 10.1242/jeb.01773

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/17/3321#ref-15

 

[daveferns1]

wow this is so cool, ill be sure to read through it fully when I have more time! Thank you for posting it