Post #2279354

2026-04-18 03:48 UTC

To be honest, I would actually be happy sitting around doing nothing all day but making friends with all the lizards, watching all their little dramas, feeding them, taking pictures of them and sharing them with the people who live in my phone. And I need more than this out of life, why again? (I've been under massive, relentless stress related to the business in California that I have to go back to shortly. The more I compare the simple joy of making friends with lizards to that grueling bureaucratic bullshit, the more dumping the house on the market and never seeing California north of the Richmond Bridge ever again seems like a worthwhile goal. So, yeah, why go back to that when I have a yard full of friendly lizards here?)

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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-04-19 01:19

Oh boy! Tiger whiptail is back! Whiptail is back! It immediately remembered me. Or at least remembered that the whistling hairless ape has free food. It ran right up to me when I whistled for it. Now, anyone who spends time out here in the desert knows that it's hard to get within 20 feet of a whiptail. They are very fast and very skittish. This one, on the other hand, when I first met it, was climbing all over me after tossing it four or five mealworms. I want to try making friends with other whiptails to see if that level of food-friendliness is a species-level characteristic or if I just met a friendly one. Latin name: Aspidoscelis tigris #LizardReport #Lizard #Lizards #SonoranDesert #herps #Herpetology.

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@michaelormsby@mastodon.art 2026-04-24 12:07

@Mikal@sfba.social It sounds like you’ve found your calling. 😄 Cool pictures, thanks for posting!

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