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Stormy Monday..

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ STORM BREWING OUT BACK OF THARGOMINDAH ♥

Here we have a magnificent male Inland Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) in a threat display during unstable weather. I spotted him on a vast, undulating gibber plain. He was seen in an alert and upright stance along an ephemeral drainage line in the far south-western corner of Queensland. I was happy to see that there were so many beardeds active in that region on that day, and many were displaying to conspecifics as we drove past. This one is typical of specimens from that area in that they grow to a large size, are built like a brick shithouse, and have beautiful, conspicuous yellow barring throughout the dorsum, legs, arms and tail. This one bit Kelly hard, drawing claret on both occasions. Then I lost my lens to him when he bit it so hard, scratching the element monumentally and rendering it out of action. Man, what a lizard.

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Uploaded on November 9, 2022