Fascinating brevicaudatus behavior

[AJA]

Geee, Brad, I hope you are proud of yourself, what' s next? Stealing candy from children?

Cool observation, thank you for sharing it with us. It goes to show these 'cold' blooded, slow moving, 'dull' looking creatures are a little more complex then we give them credit for.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Kinyonga,

I have had babies play dead in my hand before ... this one did not.
It is particularly amusing when they are laying in your palm and open one eye to see if you are still there.

Chris,

I am anxious to read your article.

Jonas,

yes it was a singular observation and certainly anecdotal at best, however, I (as mentioned) have never been the cause of this behavior before and have disturbed them often at all hours of day and night.

I have been thinking about what happened last night and it begs some questions.
Purely speculation, but, I can't help but think that not only are we able to keep this species communally ... they may require it. Possibly in greater concentration then we recommend.
I also speculate that the shaking leaves reaction might have the benefit of startling or even scaring off a predator. If there were hundreds of animals sleeping together in a colony and they all began this behavior it could produce this result.
My animals do all move to higher branches at night and sleep in close proximity to each other.

-Brad

 

[Jonas]

Interesting, like I said. Maybe you need to start recording your future nightly visits so we have something to play back in our future experiments...