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[Burning Fanatic]

Love this video so much from a while back:

On the topic of crocs and gators:

While there are not colonies of gators living in the sewers of New York City, there have been gators that have turned up close to the city itself. There was one infamous incident in 1932 that seemed to help propel the urban legend:

February 10, 1935:
Boys shoveling snow into a manhole discovered a 6-foot gator trying to make his escape from the sewer. The boys lassoed the sickly saurian with a clothesline and dragged him up to street level. Because the gator snapped at the kids (and thus convinced them he could indeed be dangerous), they attacked him with shovels and killed him. Speculation was the gator had fallen off a passing steamer, swum to shore and found the entrance to the sewer.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gatored-community/
https://www.citymetric.com/yes-they-really-have-found-alligators-new-york-sewer-system-102

 

[UnKillFill]

Speaking of turtle dick.

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

While there are not colonies of gators living in the sewers of New York City, there have been gators that have turned up close to the city itself. There was one infamous incident in 1932 that seemed to help propel the urban legend:

I will say that Floridian alligators never surprised me since the sewer pipes emptying into the lakes alligators reside in must be large in the event of heavy rain. An alligator might walk in thinking there's something to eat in there and the smell might not be as bad as their home is. I used to think they would get sick from chlorinated pool water but i heard a few stories from family down there saying that pool gators are more common than you would think. So they seem pretty hardy if they can bathe in pools

 

[IV 445]

 

[0 0]

beady eyed lizard that pukes explosive rocks

The Monster Hunter franchise is the source of some pretty goofy reptiles. Like the crowd favorite, deviljho:

Or the oddly named nibelsnarf:

...Which apparently is based on this weird thing:

But my personal favorite is the Zamtrios, a shark/lizard that inflates into a giant ball as large as the map you fight him in when threatened:

If you also want a monster than defines how over-the-top enemies are in the old Monster Hunter games before World, then you also definitely want to see the Dalamadur, the largest monster in the series. The entire map is literally just to fit him inside it. He's so huge that the entirety of the Rotten Vale in MHW is actually his corpse.

 

[Creep3r]

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The Monster Hunter franchise is the source of some pretty goofy reptiles. Like the crowd favorite, deviljho:

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Or the oddly named nibelsnarf:

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...Which apparently is based on this weird thing:

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But my personal favorite is the Zamtrios, a shark/lizard that inflates into a giant ball as large as the map you fight him in when threatened:

If you also want a monster than defines how over-the-top enemies are in the old Monster Hunter games before World, then you also definitely want to see the Dalamadur, the largest monster in the series. The entire map is literally just to fit him inside it. He's so huge that the entirety of the Rotten Vale in MHW is actually his corpse.

Semper Fi

 

[Ido]

I got wasted one night and my friend thought it would be fun to have me play Monster Hunter, the more I drank the more I kept gushing about wanting to hug all of the monsters and how adorable they were as I murdered them.

Anyways have a Beardie cosplaying the Great Jagras

 

[Creep3r]

[Ignore that cheatin' ho bird in the thumbnail]

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

Behold the mizutsune aka the "don't drop the soap" monster

 

[Ido]

Behold the mizutsune aka the "don't drop the soap" monster

11/10 so pretty I would risk my life to hug it and then promptly get brutally murdered. Worth it.

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

11/10 so pretty I would risk my life to hug it and then promptly get brutally murdered. Worth it.

I agree on that, from what the monster hunter wiki says the males are more brightly colored and have longer fins.

 

[Pai]

Behold the mizutsune aka the "don't drop the soap" monster

tfw you can't tame/befriend monsters mizutsune is one of my faves

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

tfw you can't tame/befriend monsters mizutsune is one of my faves

I know that feeling all to well, so many that I like

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

When the people of India were no longer able to be hypnotized by Kaa's rainbow eyes he resorted to imitating a pneumatic cylinder to make them leave him alone.

 

[Dysnomia]

Snakes have such cute lil' faces. A lot of reptiles look emotive. But do they actually have emotions? I've seen giant tortoises enjoy being petted. But maybe that mimics behavior by tortoise friends.

 

[160048]

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No, I don't care that they're technically amphibians, nerd.

this must have been said before, but turtles are reptiles

 

[Tiamat]

Cool reptile fact: Bearded dragons can dream!

 

[IV 445]

I used to keep and rescue all sorts of reptiles until recently. I've got this thread watched so you guys can ask anything. I dont have a ton of experience with anything enormous though.

Do you ever receive strange eggs you can’t identify?

 

[Kirito]

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Do you ever receive strange eggs you can’t identify?

No, eggs generally require very specific conditions to incubate and incubators are expensive. I have rescued a few gravid snakes but they always laid slug eggs.

 

[Ido]

Snakes have such cute lil' faces. A lot of reptiles look emotive. But do they actually have emotions? I've seen giant tortoises enjoy being petted. But maybe that mimics behavior by tortoise friends.

I mean they do have BIG personalities but I think emotions might be a a little more stunted just because they are animals so they use their basic instincts. IMO the more domesticated ones probably show a lot more because they aren't fighting for survival.

Spoiler: my beardo's personality and behavior

For instance, my beardie seems happy when he's snuggled into my jacket since it smells like me and doesn't move around when its uncomfortable like I do. He's insanely pissed off if he shits in his cage to the point of actually rearranging everything in his tank to cover it, as well as turning black to show his anger (I dont think any other beardie gets that pissed about pooping in their cage).

He's also very determined, like mega determined. If I pick him up and move him away from whatever it is he's trying to do, he will just go right back to doing it. His giant head is about the size of my palm, he can't fit under some things and after all these years you'd think he'd understand that. NOPE. He wanted to go under my tv stand, I turned him away a few times but he wanted under it, kept at it for an hour. This is how he ended up

fucker just backed into it instead, went as far back as he could. I mean, he technically got what he wanted? His front arm there is backwards like that because I think I'd just woken him up, so he had a good time under the stand lol.