Today in the science fair elective I did my second experiment. The results this time much more positive. Both of the lizards eat something wether it was lettuce, carrots, or mealworms. I started out with a larger lizard first, again. For some reason he did not want to eat the mealworm, but was extremely quick to eat the lettuce. It took him three minutes to eat the lettuce but when it did it wouldn't stop eating lettuce! Every time I presented him with lettuce, it took him less than 5 seconds to eat it. For the smaller one, it ate everything I gave him. I tried mealworms first, and it ate that really quick. Also, I presented it with lettuce and ate it really quick; with in six seconds. The last choice I gave it was carrots. It also ate the carrots really fast, within 3-8 seconds. This was somewhat surprising, seeing that they hardly moved last time, but this time they were extremely active and ate very much. - Jack Kane
Today I did my first experiment. I got the box out, put the dragon inside (the little one first), placed it on one end, with the mealworm on the other. As I lifted the pieces of card board up, the mealworm was moving very much, but surprisingly the bearded dragon did nothing. It hardly moved. After five minutes, the mealworm was moving very close to the dragon. Still, nothing happened. I then removed the dragon, put it back in its cage, and placed the larger one inside the cardboard box. So after I placed it inside, put the meal worm on the opposite end, I lifted both sides up at once. Also, even with the larger one, hardly moved. Several minutes later the dragon looked squarely at the moving mealworm, but still didn't make a move for it. Soon, the mealworm moved away and the dragon did nothing about it. After 3 more minutes of nothing happening (besides the mealworm trying to escape the cardboard box!), I removed the dragon and put it back in its cage. My reasoning for the mealworms not being very active is the cold weather; Doctor Petosky said that from what he has observed, that they are very inactive and eat very little (if any) on cold weather. The weather had a low of 46 degrees Fahrenheit and a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. -Jack Kane |
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