The boys received a really special gift for Christmas this year from their Nona, two leopard geckos which have been bestowed with the creative names, Liz and Chaka. So, I wanted to make sure that it is a learning experience and it's proven a good one.
M kept telling me he thought Liz was bigger so we have started a growth chart for them. He was right, Liz molted today! What a neat thing to watch...M helped "her" out by holding her as she wriggled and finally when it was almost off he put her back into her cage. Minutes later the skin was gone, we are assuming she ate as some animals do to prevent their scent from attracting predators, there may also be some nutritional value to eating it :O When I explained the fact that animals do that so that their predators do not smell them C responded with: "Well, why wouldn't they leave it so that the predator would think it was them and eat it then the could get away?" I thought that was pretty clever...like a decoy ;)
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