Rediscovery of a Dragon - The Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Extinction is generally considered a one way street, but recently a tiny lizard, thought by many to be extinct, was rediscovered in the grasslands of western Melbourne, after more then 50 years.
In this video we talk about the rediscovery of the grassland earless dragon 
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Thanks for watching! What Australian animal would you like to see covered next?
if you haven't already can you do a video on what your opinion about carpet python morphs are like jaguar (which I personally don't think people should be breeding) and any other morphs like more common ones for example albino
@@harrywd-y2w have you seen this one? ruclips.net/video/EA36cPf02mg/видео.html
Netted Dragon,Jacky dragon or red belly black snake.
@@Lizardliker we actually have a video on Jacky dragons and several on red bellies!
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I really love the earless dragons simply stunning really love the Roma earless dragons
Captive breeding, habitat conservation, and dogs with jobs? A fantastic combo! Such cute tiny lizards!
Well said nick! I appreciate the spotlight put on these endangered critters! If only we valued native wildlife over some houses...
Thankyou for bringing us this story
Super interesting and well explained, thanks mate😊
Sad 😭😭😭. Thank goodness hes still alive
I love these videos. You are a great film maker and i could watch these all day.. and plan to. Lol
Oh wow! I'm stunned! Daughter works at Melbourne zoo. These reptiles are in the very best of hands. Thank goodness that a group was found. Greetings from Dimboola, in Victoria.
Glad they are still around -
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Amazing, little dude got no quit in em!
Loved that thanks. Just love reptiles. How,exciting to find the lizard. Thanks for the share. Please take care
Nice video mate covered everything really well! Appreciate the mention
Mate, ive been a lizard head since i could walk. The attraction to me is more than just a coincidence. I loved this video!!
This is great news! I hope these little ones make it.
Bloody brilliant video mate! Cheers for sharing!
Great job mate. Keep up this life saving work!
Nick - pobblebonk frog. They have such a great call, love to hear about them.
Great vid nice to see these little Melbournians are still with us.
That great news
Super exciting discovery! Lots of education about grasslands needs to be done as many people thing they're just a bit crap and don't look like much, prime development opportunity surely! I work on the conservation team at an inner west council and it's such a fight to keep any of the remnant grassland that we have left, not to mention the nightmare that's actually maintaining these grasslands with all the invasives blowing in. To think it used to all be grassland at one point.
Well said Nick. I don’t think there’s enough spotlight on endangered habitats. I don’t think most people comprehend that not just a species but an entire ecosystem can be endangered. Hopefully the species can bounce back but unfortunately I doubt anything but climate change will stop human kind from destroying everything in its path. They’ve done well to keep out of our way so far so fingers crossed for them. Would have been so cool for those researchers to find them!
Obviously the exact details of what they plan to do are up in the air, but Mount Rothwell is a large predator free area fairly close to their original range, it would be amazing to see numbers of them reintroduced out there
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This is so exciting!! 😍
Funnily enough these have been for sale in Prague recently
Such great news, Thanks for brightening what was an awful day so far. The human race has a lot to answer for, I'm glad we are also helping to restore the animal life we've almost destroyed. 🙏
Thats such a sad and great story at the same time. Really well explained mate .
They're so cute
My wife & I saw one of these a year ago on her birthday, it was a stunning little dragon- thankfully she saw it on the pathway it was my exact next step she just yelled " woah". I picked it up and was amazed how calm it was, so friendly and beautiful with a bright yellow mouth.
We are familiar with pigmy dragons as we lived in NSW for the last 24 years, but are back here now. That little guy was down near Angelsea- I won't say exactly where unless you would like to know.
I placed it up on a safe mound of dirt and timber, away from the pathway we were on. Was such beautiful surprise to know they are here in Victoria.
Take care buddy, Jake & Rebecca
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The yellow mouth and the Anglesea area would indicate that what you found was a jacky dragon, still a very cool and charismatic little reptile, but the earless dragons have a pink mouth
@WickedWildlife Thanks mate, lovely. I watched your grass dragon vid and saw the pink mouth. Yes it was very cool either way- I was not aware there are any dragons in Vic, though it's strange that they can be everywhere in SA, and shingleback (stumpys) ,then NSW has water dragons, and all the others but i did not see bearded in nsw, only pigmys. Vic just has blue tongues. I did see an eastern water skink in Pennyroyal Valley when I was a boy- don't know how prominent they are here in Vic. Many in NSW. J
@@UserRandJ victoria actually has quite a few dragons, although they are mostly found outside of Melbourne. Here in the Grampians we get Eastern Bearded Dragons, Jacky Dragons, and (although they are endangered here) Mountain Dragons. Three hours north you start to get more arid species like Central Bearded Dragons, Nobbi Dragons ect
In Gippsland you get the Gippsland Water Dragon, and the Eastern Water Dragon is now living as an introduced animal along the Yarra River
We also get loads of shinglebacks here in the Grampians too!
@WickedWildlife Oh, looks like I've not gone far around Vic then, mostly Otways, Gellibrand and Surfcoast. Makes sense. But the rest of Aus I've seen plenty. Great fun to get out and about in this country. Grampians is lovely. In SA I lived in Murray Bridge, but I camped in Flinders Rangers, Quorn, it was amazing the reptiles and insects there. J
I once read somewhere that grasslands contain more biodiversity than the amazon rainforest. Well I think I may be paraphrasing I think what it actually said was per square meter. But I think it's true grasslands have many species of plants, fungi, insects, reptiles and even other animals from rodents to small mammals like rabbits. It's important to protect the grasslands, unfortunately grasslands are overlooked as just being empty space by people they destroy these grasslands for farming, to build houses, to build roads and also grasslands often have a lot of grassfires too. So these ecosystems which contain so much biodiversity are destroyed by several factors. And grasslands also serve another purpose, food for larger mammals like kangaroos and grass eating animals. I think one type of farming benefits grasslands though it's cows, they eat the grass and provide manure and nutrients back to the land although you have to rotate the cows from paddock to paddock to allow grass to grow back.
I work with sheep and cattle for a living, and in other countries they can (if managed in a specific way) play an important role in the ecosystem,
Here in Australia I think that claim is more tenuous, while livestock CAN be grazed sustainably, the idea that we higher fertility is a good thing is very Eurocentric, for example most of the native plants thrive in low fertility, yet struggle to compete with introduced plants once fertility increases
That being said a small group of people are now putting a lot of effort into farming more native pasture then improved pasture
Nice.....can you do a video on Boas vs pythons
I really do hope they survive. Government should buy all the land they need.
I must say the lizard looks very similar to one of lizard in QLD called Nobbi dragon or the Tommy round head dragon. So it is very surprising to hear it is critically endanger in victoria.
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I do hope they can be increased in numbers
As a bird lover, & the owner of a recalcitrant eclectus, I’d love to see a video on a native parrot species, possibly the gang gang cockatoo. I’ve seen them several times in the Grampians but was unable to get too close to them because there were too many tourists standing in front of them, but seeing them in the wild gave me such a frisson. They are a rare sight, & I’d love to know more about them.
Its awful that so many animals are foing extinct because of humans!!
I am sure I have the eastern earless dragon at Oakey qld.
Humans wat a sad species most anyway hi there Ausis that cair from WA.
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Please start a breeding program
bloody figures Oz has dragons .P
good on you tho, long linve earless dragons and hopefuly somewhere can be a dedicated habitat protected from human expansion when the repopulation reaches reasonable size.
Mate is there anyway at all i can help you and your family and the animals
I wonder if using Dogs isn't a tiny bit dangerous to the Lizards. It would be crazy to use the Dragons themselves for scent training, rather than an object with the scent.
Still once the Dog locates a Dragon, whats to stop the Dog from eating it.
The exact training likely initially just involves scent (although they still need dragons to obtain that scent
But eventually they would need to be taught on live dragons, mind you we are talking about highly trained dogs here, it’s been used successfully on many other species so far
Oi!!!! Where's ya hat bloke ? ahhaaha
Luckily it doesn’t live here in the U.K. we’d probably have government officials finding them and stamping on them! Good luck guys 😊