datarama3d ago

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never been sat on by a seagull it came up that she has never been sat on by a lizard. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a lizard.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life been sat on by a lizard.

🦎🦎🦎

Have you ever been sat on by a lizard?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

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Show threadThee Mighty Peculia 🍄3d ago
@datarama Multiple lizards.
Show threaddatarama3d ago
@lydialurch At the same time!
Show threadThee Mighty Peculia 🍄3d ago
@datarama No, each lizard had its own zip code. 🦎 🐊
Show threaddatarama3d ago

@lydialurch I've been sat on by two lizards simultaneously (two green anoles).

But my life total lizard-sitting-on-me-count is, uh, high. I think I'd be Lizards Georg in that meme.

Show threadThee Mighty Peculia 🍄3d ago

@datarama I might need to see that meme or your reference is lost on me. Why have so many lizards chosen you to sit upon? Do you have pockets full of crickets? 😄

I only have a handful of experiences as a lizard cushion, but every one was a different kind including salamander, gecko, iguana, monitor, and a couple of others I couldn’t identify at the time. They were all quite pleasant. No seagulls have ever tried to sit on me though, and I’m not sure I’d trust one not to do the bad thing.

Show threaddatarama3d ago

@lydialurch As for the meme I was referring to, it's:

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted".

(I think I'm an outlier in being a lizard cushion. :) )

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@lydialurch footnote: the lizards in the cuddle train are an adult female Chinese water dragon (little spoon) and a juvenile green iguana (big spoon). You can tell that both lizards have been duplicated a few times. I think the original picture is this one.

As a further footnote, those two species generally can't be kept together without close supervision. Not because they fight (they don't), but because they often become good friends! Both species are social, and will often lie down on top of one another. This works fine when they're young, but when they're full-grown an iguana can weigh over ten times as much as a water dragon, and might unwittingly crush its friend to death, because they don't really understand their own size.

But they don't compete for food or try to eat each other! Water dragons are carnivores and iguanas are herbivores.)

Mar 18 at 10:57pmWeb
Show threadThee Mighty Peculia 🍄3d ago
@datarama It’s not easy being green star crossed lovers. How adorable are they though? 🥰