BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

So it's been a while since I posted.

Needless to say things have been great.



I witnessed some unusual behavior from my BTS Steve tonight. Normally hes very laid back and never really aggressive.

He was hanging out on a flat rock in his home basking under his lamp when I walked up. The tank is head level with me because I have cats and I have his tank up high on a pedestal.




So he is face level with me. I moved a chair over and put in a little dish with some caterpillars in it for him to snack on. He ate his pilla's and remained on rock. My son got up on the chair to watch him and he had a small plush ball in his hand and Steve struck an immediate interest in it. He followed it around the tank as I moved it outside the glass. So I placed it in his tank and "it seemed" like he was "playing" with it. He was carrying it all around the tank. Hiding it under a log. Nudging it around. It was really rather cute. I've never know reptiles to be "playful" and it was probably aggression. (he's gonna shed out soon) But I just wondered f anyone has seen this behavior before in a BTS.

Pics below:








Sorry about the crappy camera phone pics

That's awesome.. I ought to try something like that with my Ty.. he's really laid back.

Hahahahaaaaa, I love Steve's "overbite" !!! He's really cute! I personally think they're smart enough to "play", I know mine has played Hide-and-Go-Skink with us.

Ya know, I think these little animals are smarter than we give them credit for. One of Zach's bluey's is even known to come when Zach calls him by name!

Bastet wrote:

That face says "ITS my ball now,Wanna fight for it!!!"

Tattoo at times walks over to me and raises one foot when she wants me to pick her up. I'm beginning to think the humans may not be the evolved species in this partnership.

Well we can never know 100% how smart things can be. We can only estimate. If chemical reactions makes up smart why cant they have some that we just dont understand

Hi, Bastet!