Thread: Post a photo a week, of anything/anywhere

Originally Posted by sunsetter

catch much?

Yes pneumonia,it was around -6,the week before fished in the snow at night caught 20 nice size whiting in 2 hours.

Samoeng Forest, earlier this evening

A five up!!

Montbeliard, France. Lunchtime today. It's f**king cold!

Lizard in the park next to Emporium. Caught him and put him to sleep, much to the amusement of the kids. Put him back in the tree and snapped a photo:

the terrapins are fun to catch in that park too.

How do you put a lizard to sleep ?

cool, benjasiri is a nice park, love to sit there for an hour or 2 enjoying the breeze

^^ They seem like they are sleeping because they are suffocating. They can't breathe when on their back. Sorry to spoil your fun

Originally Posted by mobs00

^^ They seem like they are sleeping because they are suffocating. They can't breathe when on their back. Sorry to spoil your fun

Really? Is that why their ribcages keep moving in and out? Don't know where you are getting your information, but it is incorrect. Stroke the lizard to sleep and will continue to lie there for some time until poked or shouted at; it won't asphyxiate. Works with crocodilians, too, but not snakes. Sorry to have to waste my time replying but I don't much like being baselessly accused of abusing animals.
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We don't exactly know why this seems to make a lizard submissive to the point of being comatose, but it often works. Perhaps it's a case of a lizard "playing possum," because many predators won't eat a dead lizard. It's good to get your pet lizard used to handling in order to do health inspections, give it medical attention or move it to another cage. Whatever the reason, it's always nice to know how to calm a pet lizard.

^ Plenty of info about it on the net. I had a neighbor who loved her lizard like a child. She would always keep it on her lap "sleeping" until one day it didn't wake up. She took it to the vet and they told her it suffocated because she kept it on it's back for too long.

Lizards suffocating? - Reptile Forums

“Lizards do not have diaphragms to help them breath. Their ribs
moving in and out actually cause their lungs to inflate and deflate.
When a dragon is held upside down or on its back, its stomach pushes
on its lungs making it difficult for it to breath and will
eventually result in suffocation. Please do not do this to your
dragon.”

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16. My dragon does the cutest thing when I turn him on his back- He goes to sleep!

No, your dragon isn't sleeping! More likely he's suffocating!

Lizards do not have diaphragms. The diaphragm in a human is located under the lungs. It helps our lungs expand and contract to bring in air or expel air from our lungs. The diaphragm in humans also helps keep the abdominal organs from getting into the lung cavity.

Reptiles don't have this so they use the their ribs to expand or contract their lungs and fill them or expel air from their lungs.

When a lizard is placed on it's back the abdominal organs may displace and apply pressure to the lizards lung cavity and rib cage. This may make the act of breathing very difficult for your lizard. So when you turn your dragon on it's back and it closes it's eyes, it's probably not sleeping ... it might be zoning out to some degree though ... it's most likely concentrating on breathing.

A reptile left on it's back for a period of time will often die of suffocation ... and in some cases exposure such as a turtle turned on it's back that cant right itself, baking in the hot sun.

^In my experience they always right themselves a few seconds after the stroking stops, provided they aren't restrained. Perhaps it is different for large lizards, like bearded dragons. I seriously doubt that doing so for a few seconds before releasing the animal does any damage whatsoever. It isn't as if the ginga is being chopped up for goi. In any case, sorry, you haven't spoiled the fun, I haven't seen one any worse for wear from that treatment yet, and this thread has been frayed enough. The photo I posted is post-capture- he look OK to you?

Trying to get the thread back on track- spot-breasted oriole, Florida:


Have not figured out how to hypnotize one of these.

What Thai people think of the western world.



What the western world thinks of Thailand

The christmas decorations....where?

mbk

maldives project..... view from the underwater wine cellar + some worker on a bike

Gorgeous!

view from the interplace hotel skybar at ramkhamhaeng soi 24

i very nearly did aswell......

Snowing again...

nice^

^^ thats where the eye from lord of the rings went

today being Childrens Day the school had a fun day of sports and games, a constant supply of food, drinks and icecream, gifts for every child to take home.
Christmas . . .almost

I'm sure if this bra and knickers relay 'game' was played in some countries there'd be outcry. Teams of five with a set of bra and knickers per team, put it on, run 20m and change to next runner.

In a young boy's formative years I hope this has no lasting impact.