My beardie cant stand his cage, picking at the carpet with his claws, rubbing his face against the glass, bobbing his head frequently. I took him out of his cage and put him on my bed, and he is walking along the edge, pacing, and every time he stops, he bobs his head. My first thought was "Mating Season" I know some animals and lizards have them, because he has never been like this in the 4 and a half months that ive had him. He keeps trying to make suicide jumps off my bed that is 3 feet from the ground. ive padded the floor with folded blankets with pillows on top for soft landings. I do that in case im not paying attention to him while im watching dvds on my computer which is 3 or 4 feet from my bed. Is he in mating season? or is he going nuts!
2007-03-14 06:32:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Reptiles
nothing is wrong with your beardie it is normal behaviour it's not so much mating season (it is) as this is the time when their semi hibernation period is ending its called Brumating its a little different than hibernation but you can relate the two. but shortly after the excess energy and vitality hits yes it's mating season. does he just jump off the bed? mine usually army crawl verticaly down the cover. if you had another male or female you would get to see the arm waving and what I call head floating it's kind of like the head bob only backwards head go's down slowly and then goes back up a little quicker usually accompanied with arm waves. here is a video of head bobbing and arm waving. I have hours recorded it's very fascinating to me.
2007-03-14 07:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, it is Spring time!
Head bobbing is an aggressive gesture; he apparently sees you as a rival! I have been challenged by little anoles in the Spring time!
To reassure him, try the lizard peace signal. Hold your arm straight out from your side, and bend your elbow at a right angle so that your hand is pointed toward the lizard; then move your forearm in a circular motion several times, as if making the sign of the donut. I have always found that this calms an aggressive lizard.
Rubbing the snout on glass can cause injury if he does it too much. If you think this is a problem, try placing some kind of visible barriers around the glass on the inside, something that he can feel when he rubs his snout. Some lizards never get the idea that clear glass is a barrier, but if there is something bumpy like screen or netting, or something like that, they realize they can't go through it. They stop rubbing.
2007-03-14 09:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Uh... yeah that's regularly occurring. I guess you on the puppy save you acquire him at, there have been bearded draggons doing a similar issue. i even went to a puppy save and the human beings there wrote on the glass on the outdoors in a comic book e book caption bubble retaining "what's up" and that's humorous reason the beardie got here up below it like they knew that replaced right into a gap they always come as a lot as.
2016-12-02 00:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by thetford 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know...mine has been acting weird lately too....we have sand in his cage however.... he has been doing the head bobbing thing, and my kids said his whole body was like doing the "wave" the other day...his coloring seems fine...not sure!! Sorry....good luck, I will be curious to see other results!!
2007-03-14 06:36:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
you should see a vet for that. that's why i think people should leave birds alone. let them be free and go on with nature. anyway, get a vet you don't know what could be wrong with it, and i don't see why it would jump out of bed because of mating season
2007-03-14 06:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by (= summer iz here =) 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋