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Post by lizzerd on Sept 26, 2011 19:20:52 GMT
Hi all,
A nice day today brought all the lizards out in force, days like this getting rarer as the season moves on. One of the bilineata was basking in full view and looks certain to be gravid with egg lumps starting to show. This female produced one clutch at the begining of June. None of the other females seem to be gravid. I have never experianced a gravid female this late before and was wondering if anyone else has.
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Post by barb1 on Sept 26, 2011 22:00:53 GMT
That's interesting. One of my older females is eating like a horse, the others have not eaten for weeks, so they are all different. Are you intending on bringing her in? It's supposed to be a very hot week. Could she lay this week?
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Post by lizzerd on Sept 27, 2011 19:12:27 GMT
Hi Barb
I will be keeping an eye on the weather forcasts and leave her out as long as I can. It helps with them being in a greenhouse and I have installed part of the glass in the roof section to help keep temps up. Strange things seem to be happening in my garden lately, tonight I needed to go into the shed after dark and just happened to shine the torch in one of the coldframes. there was a young agilis still out on a rock in total darkness. I gave it a little nudge and it ran to cover, but after coming out of the shed I looked again an it was back out on the rock. I have never had agilis before but surely this is not normal.
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Post by monkeyboy on Sept 28, 2011 12:13:36 GMT
Hello Lizzerd,
I've had young and adult agilis out until after dusk and had assumed it was an air temp thing, ie staying out 'cause they still feel active (though animals were always appeared to be just "day dreaming" on log/rock rather than bonus hunting). I suspect the relativly still air of a cold frame would hold its temp long after dark. I seem to recal a story in Bebee and Grifiths reptile book about an agilis that learnt to stay up after dusk to steal food off Naterjacks in the same enclosure!
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Post by barb1 on Sept 28, 2011 22:44:07 GMT
Yes, it's got to be the heat still in the rock. My Lepida male in the spring will sit in his cold frame till almost dark. It's only about 3-4 feet to his hole outside but he seems to like to be there enjoying the last warmth till about 8.00p.m.
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Post by robpilley on Nov 9, 2011 18:02:16 GMT
Ive seen young wild bilineata out and active way after the sun goes down in Brittany in france. During the day i would see a lot of adults active (as you would expect) in coastal dunes but no youngsters, so assumed they either werent present in that area or were keeping their heads down.
Then one night we were having a barbeque on the beach and I noticed around half a dozen juveniles sitting out on railway sleepers- in habitat usually occupied by the adults (which had now disappeared). I can only assume that the babies have changed their behaviour to avoid the potentially predatory adults and so emerge to hunt and feed during the evening (seeking warmth from the railway sleepers). This probably happens elsewhere too with other species, so i wouldnt worry if your young (or adults) were being active on warm evenings.
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