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Yeah, I don't know what to call this thread.

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Well. This isn't a question. This is more a WHOOOOA, WHAT JUST HAPPENED.



I keep a spray bottle and cup and chopsticks on top of my salamander house. So whenever I reach for them, he knows. I took the bottle and started moving the screen on top, and he stood on two legs. Like, imagine a begging dachshund. It was like that. He had no support, and just... DID IT. (Usuually, he tries it, and falls onto something.) And no, there were no pics. ;__; *despair*


You get an extra cricket, Edvhard. You crazy little dude.






...Am I praising him for nothing? Do salamanders do this? I have no idea.
 
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What's the species? My kweichow will climb up the sides with it's front legs begging for food, but I've seen any caudate outright lift off like that without support. That's pretty awesome.
 
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Do you mean tripod? like some monitor species do. My largest c.e.popei have done that 2-3times during feeding, standing straight up with the hands free in the air 5-10second (but with suport by tail of curse) trying to reach the woodlice from the twezeer.And I can agree that it looks pretty awesome. Next time i shall take a picture.
 
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He's a tiger. He does it all night, with his little hands on the glass, staring at me. But he's never done it without holding onto anything.

Usually when I feed him, he just jumps at me, and misses, falling on his face, or into his pool.


I think I've seen some reptiles do it. But I have never kept one. :(


I just never have seen him so.... graceful.
 
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My tigers does that to, or stands over the front hanging out with their heads begging for food. I have never seen one of them tripod thou. That must have been an exciting sight.

For how long did he stand like that?
 
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I had a Eurycea guttolineata that would stand on it's back legs whilst picking off fruit flies from the lid of it's tank.

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He was holding it still for several seconds. However, I was already reaching in, so I don't know if he could have held it longer. I broke his concentration with delicious crickets.


Maybe the dachshund is teaching him tricks. Even though she's not supposed to do that.
Actually, I don't know where she learnt that either. o_O


He's the only salamander I've seen, so I really don't know what exactly they're supposed to do.
 
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Nice capture Mark! I`shall have the camera ready during next feeding.
 
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allegoriest said:
Yeah, I don't know what to call this thread
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how about "Salamander gymnastics"?


My firebellies (C. pyrrhogaster) will bite my finger tips when I stick them in the water and will hang on as I lift them out of the tank. At one point, for only a few seconds, I had ALL FOUR hanging off my hand.

Someday I'll try to get a pic of that :)
 
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Awww, its so cute~ and awesome.


Mine likes to do that too. Then we both have this AHHHHHHHH moment where he realises he bit something not for dinner, and it has him, and I'm in this AHH BEING BITTEN moment.

But four? That's insane.


And, this is gonna be the most ridiculous question ever. But...... Where am I? I was looking for a general-y forum, and kinda thought the other was it. but this place is better. (yay mods!) But ...How do I get to... this place from the main page? O____o?
 
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allegoriest said:
But four? That's insane.
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yeah..it was a strange glorious moment of total One-ness with my newts.

As for where we are, I have no idea either. I can't find this thread when going to the main forums page.

maybe it exists only in our heads?:wacko:
 
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Someday I'll try to get a pic of that :)
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I would like to see that. Four pyrro at the same time is a little extreme. So my tigers holding on to a twezeer some seconds is not something to brag about now.
 
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