lizard videos 🦎

Welcome to my lizard video page! AKA probably my favorite animals of all!!! ❤️

I cannot stand videos showing animals being harmed by humans, whether it's an irresponsible pet owner (sadly there are many videos of people filming their pet in dangerous situations because they think it's funny or don't realize the pet is in danger) or someone harassing a wild animal (provoking it or trying to make the animal bite them), so I do not include such videos on this page.

As usual, I have also included content warnings (cw's) in case things like lizards eating live bugs ick you out. I hope you find some of these videos interesting!

• (cw: animal skeletons; footage of a dragonfly, wasp, & crabs are shown before the 1:06 timestamp; this link starts the video at 1:16) The Two-Legged Reptile That Hears With Its Skin (learn about the unusual Mexicon Mole Lizard as Hank Green from Bizarre Beasts shares facts and video footage)


• Frill-Necked Lizard Escapes Python | Wild Monsoon (a lizard runs on two legs with incredible speed to escape from a snake predator)


• 12 Lagartos Más Asombrosos del Mundo (in Spanish)


• Lagartijas Buscando el Camino a Casa | HHMI BioInteractive Video (in Spanish - a scientist studying anole lizards in Puerto Rico shows us the answer to the question: if you move a tiny territorial anole lizard a football-field's distance away from it's territory in the Puerto Rican rainforest, can it find its way back within 24 hours?)


• (cw: beetle) Episodio vigesimo sexto : El mundo de las lagartijas (in Spanish - this video showcases several species of lizards that can be found in Spain)


• Leopard Gecko Medicine with Dr. Kline (Have you ever wondered how a pet Leopard Gecko is given medicine? In this video, a veterinarian demonstrates by wrapping the gecko in an adorable towel "burrito" and giving it a liquid in its mouth. The lizard does not appear to be sick or suffering in this demonstration video that takes place in a veterinary clinic.)

Bearded Dragon videos

• Wild bearded dragon (a wild Beardie sits on a fencepost)


• (cw: grasshoppers, lizard eating live insects; spider photo in the uploader's icon) BEARDED DRAGON - Worlds Best Pet Lizard? DRAGON LIZARD - REPTILES Australia - DRAGON DUDES Top 10 (wild Bearded Dragons calmly eat live grasshoppers while a person talks about Bearded Dragon facts)


• BEARDED DRAGONS IN THE WILD! (are we keeping them correctly?) (Dāv Kaufman's Reptile Adventures - a person travels to Australia to watch Bearded Dragons in their natural habitat, and discusses what their observations mean for optimal pet Bearded Dragon husbandry)


• Wild Bearded Dragon (a wild Beardie defensively displays a threatening black, puffed up beard)


• Bearded dragon, Central Australia (a wild Bearded Dragon sits atop a wooden post, and then runs off with incredible speed)


• (cw: cockroaches, mealworms, lizard eating live insects) bearded dragon growth 1 month - 1 year (a remarkable slideshow of a pet Bearded Dragon's growth from baby to adulthood)


• Catching a wild Bearded Dragon in the Australian desert! (360° VR video) (a person goes herping and catches some wild Bearded Dragons in this 360 video--click/tap and drag the video around to change your view!)


• Wild Dragons Of The Mountain!! (Coop's Reptiles - a person goes herping in search of wild Bearded Dragons)

Glossary

• herping - the activity of going outside (such as on a hike) in search of herps (reptiles & amphibians) to observe them in their natural habitat; often includes catching herps, examining them while holding them with a gentle but secure and steady grip (so as not to harm the animal) so it can be seen up close, and releasing it back into the wild
• herpetology - the scientific study of herps (reptiles & amphibians); a branch of zoology
• beardie - short for "Bearded Dragon", an affectionate nickname used by pet owners and other enthusiasts of this popular lizard; does not refer to any particular species of the Bearded Dragon genus, Pogona, but Pogona vitticeps (AKA the Central or Inland Bearded Dragon) is the species most commonly kept as a pet
• leachie - short for "Leachianus Gecko", an affectionate nickname that refers to a species of gecko, Rhacodactylus leachianus, that is becoming increasingly popular as a pet

Image Credits:

• Photo by Tim Vickers, "San Esteban chuckwalla (Sauromalus varius)", 2008, via WikiMedia Commons; version on this page was cropped & resized in Photoshop.
• Photo by Patricia Guillory, "Male green iguana at the Green Iguana Conservation Project in San Ignacio, Belize", 2019, via WikiMedia Commons; version on this page was resized in Photoshop.

Removed Videos:

• Spike vs. Squirrel (Bearded Dragon lizard) (a pet Bearded dragon and a wild Gray Squirrel react to one another while separated by a glass window; no animals are harmed in this funny and unusual interaction) -- Why was it removed? While I don't think there's anything wrong with this video, I discovered that the uploader released a second video in which they open the porch door, allowing the lizard and squirrel to possibly interact directly. They don't get close enough to each other to fight, but I still think this action is irresponsible pet ownership because the pet lizard and the wild animal could have injured one another or spread diseases or parasites.