Got quite a surprise today from our plated. He's gotten really attentive on feeding days (they must have killer sense of smell as he has a perfectly placid reaction every other time we open it to handle) and when we brought a pinkie in he was looking upwards in anticipation. This is the pose he strikes when he (somehow) KNOWS we got goodies for him:



Note the short and not so stocky legs. Hardly a "leapin' lizard" that one. But while lowering the pinkie down into the cage he SPRUNG into the air, launching off his hind legs and I kid you not used his tail as a sort of spring as well to get airborne (the base of thier tail is THICK) and snagged the pinkie dangling from my fingers like some sort of circus seal or dolphin goin after a dangled fish. I'm talking a good 16" for a lizard that sometimes has problems ambling his lazy looking but up onto the roof of his hide (shoebox height).

Never seen him do that before - jawdroppingly awesome.

Now if I can get him to pedal that tiny little tricycle around . . .