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It's my boss's husband who's worried. He's a musician and doesn't know much about animals; he'd never heard of a tegu until we got one and his wife told him. I am the animal curator of a children's museum. Of our nine animals (not including our fish and touch tank invertebrates), the only one who would guaranteed bite someone is Bernie the box turtle. He is insanely aggressive and I risk a bite every time I feed him. That's why he doesn't come out and play. Our red-eared sliders are also a tad on the bitey side and Spike the Sudan plated lizard is too old, fragile, and unsocialized to be taken out. They don't pay me enough to take out the tarantula, lol. In addition to the tegu, we have a bearded dragon, a water dragon, and a rosy boa who are all friendly and come out regularly.