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If I were a bird, I'd be a starling. Full of words and songs. Clever and curious to a fault. Lovingly social with birds of a feather. Not always popular with humans. Plumage made of outer space, a rainbow of nebulae and stars.



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Lazy lizard

2023/03/19

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So, I'm getting caught up on posting some of the various things I've written, crafted, photographed and posted elsewhere so far this year.


Some of the latest are just cute lizard pictures.


I texted Elle "This is one of the 5,000 physically impossible positions that a blue tongue skink finds comfortable."


She replied: "I actually think we're always witnessing a battle between laziness and comfort"


and yknow I think she's right.


I think I'm learning a new thing about my lizard: she is VERY solar-powered.


Early in the day, when there hasn't yet been enough light to warm her up, she is lazy and slow. (She has heaters on all night, but I guess the lights that turn on in the morning are what really get her feeling awake.)


This means that until she gets going, she has to stop often to recharge... no matter which part of which crawly motion she's in the middle of.


So I think this explains why she will often lounge around for quite a while in positions that look straight-up RIDICULOUS. Like this one.



Video panning from side to side, showing the front half of a very long lizard drooping down from an elevated area of her tank, with her jaw resting on top of a large plastic tunnel on the floor. Her stubby front legs dangle in between.



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