If you want to ask which of the lizard-like climbing pets is an introductory type, it must be the leopard-print palace. Leopard-print shogunate is small, and does not need to be strictly polished, if not the pursuit of the extreme, the use of drilled storage boxes, kitchen paper and hideouts made of paper cups can feed the shogunate, they do not eat much, storage boxes do not take up much space, raising is quite worry-free.
In fact, there is also a kind of lizard in the climbing pet world that is also very popular, and the people who keep them are not much less than the people who keep the palace.
The name of this lizard is called the maned lion lizard, which is generally referred to as the maned lion in the climbing pet circle, and it has become popular all over the world in the 1980s, and the current genetic strains are numerous, and the breeding and breeding methods have been perfected.
<h1>"The Bearded Dragon"</h1>
Before talking about the rearing method of the maned lion lizard, let's first understand the wild maned lion lizard.
The maned lion lizard, known as the Central Maned Lion Lizard, scientific name Pogona vitticeps, is mainly distributed in arid and semi-arid areas of central Australia, inhabiting savanna, arid woodlands and rocky desert areas.
Due to their wide distribution area, in order to adapt to (mimic) different landforms and environments, the body color of wild maned lion lizards is also more varied, including dark gray, off-white, brown, red, orange and mottled variegated colors.
This "changeable" refers to individual differences in maned lion lizards living in different environments, rather than saying that they are free to change color. The larvae of the maned lion lizard do have some color differences from the adults, but they will be basically fixed after adulthood, and the changes will not be too large (but if they are not well raised, the overall color will be darker).
The maned lion lizard takes its name from the unique structure of their jaws, the throat pouch.
They are covered with scales, and there are many spikes of different sizes on the sides of the body, on the neck and in the lower jaw. When danger comes, the maned lion lizard will open its mouth, while expanding its throat pouch to support spikes, the entire neck is enlarged in a circle, looking like a lion's mane, so it is named the maned lion lizard.
In addition, the English name of the maned lion lizard is Bearded dragon, the first word means beard, the second word although the literal translation is dragon, but foreigners will also call some lizards dragon, the famous Komodo dragon English name suffix is also dragon, literal translation of Komodo dragon.
<h1>Regular work and rest</h1>
Wild maned lion lizards are not social social, but they occasionally choose to live in groups, especially in food-rich, well-lit places.
The maned lion lizard's day's routine goes like this:
Come out of the cave in the early morning, first find a suitable place that protrudes from the ground, such as low branches, fences, rocks, etc., and then start basking in the sun;
After the body temperature rises to a certain level, the maned lion lizard begins to look for food, and after eating, it will continue to bask in the sun to help it digest;
At its hottest at noon, they will look for a cool place to escape the heat, and in the afternoon, when the temperature is slightly lower, they will continue to bask in the sun;
At night, when the sun sets and the temperature gets colder, go back to the perched cave to prepare for rest.
<h1>Draw a circle to curse you? </h1>
Although the wild maned lion lizard does not have a strong social hierarchy and class, the maned lion lizard colony that lives together will have a male dominant, it has little priority in finding and enjoying food, but it will occupy the highest and most prominent spot when basking in the sun, and the other maned lion lizards in the group can only bask in lower, less lighted areas.
If the lower-status maned lion lizard disobeys the strongest individual, it will try to get close to the location where the strongest individual is basking in the sun, while the highest-status maned lion lizard will support its throat pocket at this time and quickly nod up and down to deter the intruder.
The maned lion lizard that came to look for trouble would raise one of its forelimbs to draw a circle in the air if it was scared. This is not to curse the other party, but to show submission to the strong; if it still does not obey, it will bulge its throat and nod up and down like a strong individual, at which point a battle may break out.
Many shovelers who raise maned lion lizards have seen maned lions nod at them in the breeding box, which is actually that it thinks that the shoveler is too close to itself, and its status has been challenged, but at this time, even if the shoveler continues to approach, there is no problem, the maned lion lizard has a relatively stable personality and rarely attacks humans, which is one of the reasons for their popularity;
There are also some maned lion lizards that raise their hands and draw circles at the shoveler, which is also their act of submission to the shoveler, believing that they are not the opponents of the humans in front of them.
In addition, male maned lion lizards will also make nods to females during courtship, and if female maned lion lizards are not ready to breed, they will respond with a quick nod to indicate rejection.
<h1>The chin will change color</h1>
The jaws of male maned lion lizards darken in two situations: the breeding period and the stress state.
The color of the chin and the size of the throat pouch are signs of whether the male maned lion lizard is strong, and the female maned lion lizard will choose males with dark chins and large throat pouches to reproduce together.
The second situation occurs when the male maned lion lizard is suddenly stimulated, their jaws will quickly turn black after encountering danger, while supporting the throat pocket to open their mouths, exposing their teeth, the body will also become flattened and tilted to one side, if such an appearance still can not scare the other party, the maned lion lizard may also stand upright and quickly slip away on a pair of hind legs.
Before there was a GIF on the Internet that was very hot, that is, a large lizard and a small lizard met, and the small lizard body turned over and stood upright and ran away quickly. The big lizard in the GIF is a black and white taiga, and the small lizard is a maned lion, but it is rare to walk upright on two legs, and it is rare to see such a scene.
<h1>About breeding matters</h1>
Why is it said that the threshold for raising the maned lion lizard is higher than that of the shougong?
First of all, the maned lion lizard is relatively large, and when it is adult, the tail can be more than 60 centimeters long, and they need a wooden box of at least 120 centimeters long to raise, which is expensive for such a large wooden box.
Secondly, the maned lion lizard is different from the shougong, they need to regularly illuminate UVA lights and UVB lights every day, the former is to simulate the sun, giving the maned lion lizard the necessary temperature for activity and digestion, and the latter provides the maned lion lizard with the ultraviolet rays contained in the sun, after all, UVA can only bring light and temperature, no ultraviolet rays, and ultraviolet rays are particularly important for the maned lion lizard.
Third, the shougu is an insectivore, while the maned lion lizard is an omnivore, and they not only need to eat live arthropods every day, but also need to eat fresh vegetable leaves, fruits and other foods, and also need to supplement calcium and regulate the gastrointestinal tract.
However, as long as these can be done well, the maned lion lizard is still a pet that is more worry-free to raise, and the interaction with the owner is also quite good.