Beard
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From my understanding, probably wrong though, not too many animals can see blue in the colour spectrum. If this is the case blue as a defence mechanism would be a little pointless.
is it blue from de-oxygenated blood?
is it blue from de-oxygenated blood?
did not workI am trying to upload a pic of my other bluey, so excuse me if it dont work. This specimine runs around our house freerange.
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From my understanding, probably wrong though, not too many animals can see blue in the colour spectrum. If this is the case blue as a defence mechanism would be a little pointless.
Not a bad answer and I don't have a particularly better one, but I might question. Have you ever seen a Lampropholis flare its tongue at you? I think the majority of skinks do not use their tongue as a defense mechanism, that is limited to some of the larger ones, including this pink tongue whos tongue certainly isn't blue.
What I find strange about pink tongues is instead of displaying their tongues clearly like bluetongues, they simply open their mouths and sometimes add a hiss in, but usually it barely looks like a threat display.
For instance when I found my male pink tongue after he escaped, I picked him up and he did a threat display. To me, it just looked like his mouth was hanging limply and I was scared he was diseased or something, until I realised he was just displaying.
Just didnt look as threatening as a bluetongues display.
What I find strange about pink tongues is instead of displaying their tongues clearly like bluetongues, they simply open their mouths and sometimes add a hiss in, but usually it barely looks like a threat display.
For instance when I found my male pink tongue after he escaped, I picked him up and he did a threat display. To me, it just looked like his mouth was hanging limply and I was scared he was diseased or something, until I realised he was just displaying.
Just didnt look as threatening as a bluetongues display.
[video=youtube;D4oLJaK5M-A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oLJaK5M-A[/video]
i was surprised at the way they flick their tongue!
What I find strange about pink tongues is instead of displaying their tongues clearly like bluetongues, they simply open their mouths and sometimes add a hiss in, but usually it barely looks like a threat display.
For instance when I found my male pink tongue after he escaped, I picked him up and he did a threat display. To me, it just looked like his mouth was hanging limply and I was scared he was diseased or something, until I realised he was just displaying.
Just didnt look as threatening as a bluetongues display.
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