Mastodawn

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.

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Have you ever been sat on by a lizard?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

	Yes
	No

Poll ends at Mar 25 at 1:53pm.

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Mike 2d ago

@datarama We were bussed out to an old army camp in the California desert hills while they were building a new elementary school, *very* rustic. We'd catch lizards and bring them into class, they'd sit on our hands and learn about fractions, probably about as well as we did, in the dusty heat 😆

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datarama

@sunumbral The one experience I have with being sat on by a wild lizard (a European common viviparous lizard) was also a lizard I caught, although I should probably say "caught" with quotation marks, since it was a very gentle catch. I sat down slowly in front of her, sat quietly for a while until I could see she was calm, then carefully picked her up from the front rather than from above. She then sat on my hand for a couple of minutes or so, before hopping down and going about her day. She didn't drop what she had left of her tail (some of which had already been dropped, probably from a run-in with a predator), so she was less scared of me than I think I would have been if I got picked up by a giant ape.

(It was at a school excursion when I was a kid. But at the time I'd kept a couple of pet lizards and knew the basics of how to build trust with a lizard.)