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Think of it from his point of view, see as a baby (young) tegu he is at the bottom of the food chain just above eggs and baby mice so he has to be fast and skittish because to him the whole world is a preadator, as he gets bigger that fear isn't there simply because he knows then there are not many animals that would take on a tegu the size of a jack russell..it's evolution at it's finest, as babys birds hunt them (which is why thy hate being picked up from above) so they grow really quickly so that no predator can actually carry them, they need speed when they are young but all they need is weight as the grow older because then their predators then become their potential prey

[QUOTE="MadameButterfly, post: 124634, member: 3100"] Think of it from his point of view, see as a baby (young) tegu he is at the bottom of the food chain just above eggs and baby mice so he has to be fast and skittish because to him the whole world is a preadator, as he gets bigger that fear isn't there simply because he knows then there are not many animals that would take on a tegu the size of a jack russell..it's evolution at it's finest, as babys birds hunt them (which is why thy hate being picked up from above) so they grow really quickly so that no predator can actually carry them, they need speed when they are young but all they need is weight as the grow older because then their predators then become their potential prey [/QUOTE]

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