Dirty dirty beardie!!!

[Guest]

Hehehehehe, check out what my beardies were up too!!!

Posing and all!!!

Cheers, Alan.

 

[Guest]

"in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight" "he's giving here a good old popp"

good news for u then sherm.

 

[Mr.K]

is she squinting in the bottom shot? lol :lol:

 

[Jarvis78]

yyeeeehhaaaaaaww SPANK DAT ASS!!! :lol:

 

[Guest]

the funny thing (or wierd, whichever way you look at it) is that they are both males!!!!!

 

[Guest]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! man u out to put them in councling. no wonder one is squinting....he's blind :roll:

 

[Jarvis78]

WOW GAY BEARDIES!!!!! you should put them in the next madigras.

 

[Jarvis78]

not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

[Greebo]

I can't tell from that photo if they are dirty or not. If you need to clean them just throw them in with your laundry (on the gentle cycle of course).

 

[Slateman]

That is the problem with your past teamsherman. I think that you had few of your mates from army visiting and your beardies just doing what your army budies teach them.
Mate you must get some girl flatemate to turn them around again.

 

[Jarvis78]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
SLATEMAN GETS OFF A RIPPA!

 

[Sdaji]

Were the beardies just sitting together?

Homosexual behaviour is quite common in some reptiles, somewhat disturbingly (no offense to any gay people intended).

Here is some 'hot lesbian action' in gillen's monitors. The smaller female is carrying out typical male sexual behaviour and had the larger female in the normal copulation position several times the day these pics were taken, as well as many other days. The day this one was taken she was particularly aroused/confused/something crazy and fiercely attempted to mount the male as if the sexes were reversed, the larger male struggled violently and would not allow it, but the female acting as a female while another female acted like a male with her was actually more cooperative than when the real male tries to copulate with her, which is typically the case. I have pondered the reason/function of this behaviour, but my best guess is that goannas are particularly prone to errors with the correct gender's sexual behavioural pathways being expressed. Homosexual behaviour has been demonstrated to have definite functions in some reptile species, but I can't quite bring myself to explain it (goo!). Again, no offense to any people is intended, I'm happy to be open minded and tolerant, but I get grossed out and can't help that either and you can tolerate that too!

Hey Slatey, if Sherman's lizards are acting inappropriately because of what they've seen, what's your explanation of the behaviour the lizards at my place are displaying?

Sorry about the attrocious photo quality, but it is clear enough to see what is happening.

 

[peterescue]

Well, you do live in Sydney Sherm and not that far from Oxford St.

Should they be facing in opposite directions Sdaji?

 

[Samma3l]

pow wow wikka wikka pow wow wikka wikka (porn music)

 

[jungleboy]

Sherm, the beardies may be gettin dirty, but their tank is filthy! If you cleaned the glass they might see their relections and wake up to themselves :shock:

 

[Guest]

Yeah, the beardies were just sitting together, they are always sitting on top of each other and playing footy by knocking each other off (tackle style) the logs and rocks in the tank, its pretty funny!!

 

[Sdaji]

Should they be facing in opposite directions Sdaji?

Well, the smaller one (acting as a male) should probably be more aware of her gender, but funny you should mention it, because at first that's the way she did it: "wrong way around" and grabbing the other female's pectoral girdle with her hind legs, instead of her pelvic girdle. This seems to be common in sexually inexperienced gilleni, with inexperienced males doing this too, sometimes trying to insert a hemipene into the underside of a female's neck. My original male was quite dopey in his first season and tried to copulate with necks for about a week before getting it right for the first time.

One guess that I had for the reason females put on a show resembling a male/female pair is that real males may see what is going on, get fooled and run over to displace the competitor and copulate with the female. Perhaps females which want sperm and have not been located by a male do this. Similar behaviour has been hypothesised to exist in some African ungulates. The male you can see in the second photo was certainly very interested in what was going on between the two girls, although I can't say for sure how he interpreted it.

There is a lot of sexual (and other) behaviour I've observed in V.gilleni which I wanted to stick in my recent article, but couldn't because of the rush to meet the deadline, I may write a follow up article in a year or two. I find the females' "attempt to escape with the intention of being seized" behaviour particularly interesting.

 

[Slateman]

Hey Slatey, if Sherman's lizards are acting inappropriately because of what they've seen, what's your explanation of the behaviour the lizards at my place are displaying?

Sorry about the attrocious photo quality, but it is clear enough to see what is happening.

They are 2 ugly shelas mate. I would not join them my self. You have to pay for some male to get in.
That can leave scars on him for rest of his live mate.

 

[Slateman]

Yeah, , they are always sitting on top of each other and playing
by knocking each other

Yeh we have the picture mate. Get them girl please or I call rspca.
This put's us straight guys off.

 

[africancichlidau]

Good pick Jungleboy LOL