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A worthless hero

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I still remember this lizard. Poor guy :(. He’s a living proof that present lizards are stupid. And by “stupid” I mean that they have problems with learning things. My friend told me that their brain part responsible for learning in not enough developed or something.
Two years ago I was in a reptile exhibition in Zakopane. Try to imagine that this guy was sitting in a glass terrarium on a branch. Suddenly he jumped, hit the glass with his muzzle and felt down. I was quite shocked but then he climbed the branch and did it again. His mouth was all flat and covered in blood (you can see it on the photo) but he kept on doing it.
One year later I also entered the reptile gallery and he was still trying to jump thorough the glass wall with his muzzle even more destroyed. I guess he was hitting the glass for the whole year and he is probably still doing it of course if he haven’t already killed himself. He just couldn’t learn that there is some kind of an invisible barrier he can’t pass. :/

Poor lizard… but I still like him. Maybe one day he will break the glass :)

It's a Green Basilisk (or a Jesus Christ lizard). Thanks :iconadrielle-226: for telling me his name :)
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KreepingSpawn's avatar
Seems like someone ought to have noticed and reconfigured the habitat so he couldn't do it, or at least wouldn't hurt himself as badly. :no: