*Miaou*

Obi-Wan: It was you?

Qui-Gon Jinn: I saw a child on the sidewalk today.

Count Dooku: Outstanding! This is what I’m talking about, people.

Qui-Gon Jinn: He’s mine now.

Count Dooku: Qui-Gon, you can’t kidnap children–

Tiny Obi-Wan: !!!

Obi-Wan:

Ahsoka:

Rex:

Cody:

[Anakin walks in]

Anakin: We’re having a party?

Ahsoka: What?

Anakin: I had a bad childhood.

Ahsoka: Oh. Yeah, I know.

Anakin: You know? Did Obi-Wan tell you?

Ahsoka: He didn’t need to. Just look at you.

Anakin: What do you mean?

Ahsoka: Just look at how you stand. People who had good childhoods don’t stand like that.

So, first thing you need to know is that is a very visibly healthy adult green iguana. Every part of the iguana is sharp. The claws evolved to haul a ten pound lizard up a tree. The spines are like tiny icepicks. The tail is a bullwhip. The teeth evolved to shred leaves, but they'll just as easily shred your flesh. Good luck making a healthy adult iguana do anything they don't wanna. That puts us on our first thing to look at- is the animal capable of defense and getting away, physically? Yes, definitely.

Next thing to know is what does a threatened or scared iguana look like? When an iguana is threatened, it doesn't stand on its hind legs like that; it stands on all fours and puffs itself up to look bigger, aggressively bobs its head (note: head bobbing is a behavior used for a LOT of things, it does need context- for example, they also head bob as part of mating displays), there is hissing, there is tail whipping- iguanas are not subtle creatures. None of this is the behavior of an iguana that feels threatened or is being a threat!

So what does standing like that mean? That's just simple reaching. The iguana sees something they want and is attempting to reach it, and what they want appears to be uppies, because they settle into the human's grip immediately.

Then, we see some GREAT handling from the human. There's really great communication happening between the two of them! The person picks up the iguana very securely- pelvis and pectoral girdles are well supported, and he doesn't grab. (Iguanas typically do NOT like being grabbed around the sides; many of their predators are birds and coming at them from above or gripping the sides is scary!)

As he goes in for the pet, he lets the iguana support their back half on his knee. The hold is secure but not tight; at any point, if the iggy was distressed, they could leave. But they don't- instead, you see them leaning into the pets, actively participating in the behavior. They're not even closing their eyes to block stimulus. They want this to happen.

This is the kind of bond that's possible when you can prove to a big lizard that you're trustworthy, and easily the best iguana video I've seen in a long time. Thank you for tagging me in!

Some green iguana body language resources under the jump!

White Spotting in European Red Foxes

Here’s another weird color mutation I’ve been finding examples of recently. The top fox was killed in the UK, while the bottom two were killed in the Netherlands as part of an unrelated research project.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find out any more information about it, other then this spotting appears to be common in foxes in the South Limburg region of the Netherlands, (suggesting it’s genetic and not a random mutation.)

Clearly it’s a less dramatic form of leucisum, but if anyone has anymore info/pictures of this mutation then please let me know! I’m really fascinated by the variation in color of both wild and captive-bred foxes.

Obi-Wan: ??

james knowing that he went too far and trying to stay low profile

lily being mad at james but not really because deep down she knows that it wasnt exactly his fault

lily starting to hang with the marauders more just to piss off snivellus

james secretly being so glad that she does hang out with them

lily laughing her ass off at their jokes and pranks

lily starting to plan some pranks with them

james slowly falling more in love with her

but james being respectful and caring too much about her to ruin their friendship

peter, sirius and remus seeing right through him

peter, sirius and remus teasing him and lily being absolutely oblivious

lily having growing feelings for james

marlene calling lily out on her feelings and lily denying

lily staring at james when he speaks with his hands and laughs a little too loud at dinner

lily thinking about james when she’s studying in the library

lily frantically realizing that she does have feelings for james

james being oblivious as well

james being absolutely ridiculous always but trying to look super cool (old habits die hard)

peter, sirius and remus teasing the BOTH of them because they are so damn obvious

but lily and james staying oblivous still

lily and james pining for each other

james not being able to focus in class because of lily

lily cheering a little more than usual at quidditch matches

and blusing when james smiles when they won and runs a hand though his hair

maybe some cute dates they dont know is dates? basically remus sirus and peter ditching them last minute for a hogsmeade’s trip

james and lily having so much fun just the two of them and ending it by staring at each other’s eyes for ten minutes before lily clears her throat and awkwardly says bye

after gryffindor wins the cup, party in the common room and james and lily are slightly drunk and they almost kiss but they’re interrupted by a way more drunk sirius and the moment is ruined and they’re too shy to talk about it after

james and lily starting to sit next to each other in every class because they have so much to tell each other

james and lily having silent conversations at the gryffindor table when their friends start to be ridiculous

james and lily studying together in the library and in the park

james and lily simply enjoying each other’s presence next to them

THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF HOGWARTS AND THE WHOLE WIZARDING WORLD KNOWING THAT JAMES POTTER AND LILY EVANS ARE IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER EXCEPT JAMES POTTER AND LILY EVANS

lily stealing james’ clothes for the weekends

james resting his head on her stomach when they hang out near the lake