[email protected] schrieb am 03.10.05 11:55:08: > > Dear Stefan, > > Thanks for your response. > > There are a couple of interesting points in your post. > > Is this behavior more common with females. My male does it also but > nowhere near as much. He certainly never seems to slide down the stick > to "pile drive" the substrate. > > My female seems particularly fat at the moment, she could be gravid but > it would be her first clutch. > > Assuming it is typical I wonder what kind of adaptive behavior this > could be? Does it make them look better camoflaged? More twig like? > > regards __daavid > > -- > http://herptrader.com.au > > > Stefan Brech wrote: > > >[email protected] schrieb am 02.10.05 13:46:08: > > > > > >>G'day All, > >> > >>I am wondering if some of you can shed some light on the leg waving > >>behaviour of our spiny tailed geckos. > >> > >>This is a picture of our female. Here she has one leg in the air and > >>her head in the sand: > >> > >>http://herptrader.com.au/tmp/gex_9.jpg > >> > >>They seem asleep when they are doing this but will raise each of their > >>legs off what they are holding onto and hold it in the air swapping the > >>leg every 15 minutes or so. Sometimes they will take off two at once. > >>Sometimes the female will end up face first in the sand... like she has > >>slowly slid down the stick she is on. > >> > >>Is this normal behavior? > >> > >>Why do you think they may be doing his? > >> > >>thanks in anticipation, __daavid > >> > >>-- > >>http://herptrader.com.au > >> > >> > >> > >hello, i can observate this as well, but only my strophurus ciliaris > >aberrans are doing that kind of daysleeping. > >but they have no problems at all. > >sometimes on of my females is just hanging with the back legs on the wood, > >and the complete body and frontlegs are hanging around the air. > >regards stefan > >www.reptilwelt.de > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Global Gecko Association > http://www.gekkota.com > Classifieds > http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi > gecko mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gekkota.com/mailman/listinfo/gecko
well, i only watched this at my females until now, and they are not gravid so far, because i will start breeding them next year first. i esp. can watch it when i bask them directly with a special UVB spot, but they do it also during the normal basking a day. i keep also ciliaris ciliaris and other strophs, but i never watched that on them. it could be a kind of camouflage, but i think then the others would do it also like that. it looks very strange sometimes and when i saw it the first time, i thought they were dead or something like that. anyway it is sometimes funny to see this, but for a real answere to that i can not say anything. by the way the one you sended the picture has very nice big spines on the tail, would love to see some more pictures if possible. regards stefan _______________________________________________ Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Classifieds http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi gecko mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gekkota.com/mailman/listinfo/gecko
