Phantasticus Tail Wave Behavior

[SatanicPanic]

YouTube - MOV00470

I just caught some tail waving from one of my females. She wasn't really hunting, but just casually looking at a cricket. Just for those who are curious what it looks like.

 

[Graham_s]

I have never seen this in my aff.ebenaui but I have seen the small finger-like part of the tail right at the tip vibrate like e.macularis males do when mating.

interesting video thanks for posting!

 

[Robbe]

looks good

 

[SatanicPanic]

They also do a tail wave when they wave their entire tail all around, but I haven't caught that on video. They do that serpentine tail movement usually when they see prety. They also do the tip vibration too. Each of my phantasticus have different reactions to prey. Some will do a vertical wave motion down the tail. Some sway side to side. Pretty neat on how they kind of have unique characteristics.

 

[Salzy]

Do you also witness them doing a shaking leg motion coupled with the tail movements? My female will vibrate one of her back legs quite furiously when she sees prey. This is either done with or without a bit of a tail waving as well.

 

[miguel camacho!]

reminded me i have video of phantasticus mating. i only uploaded it to myspace videos...lets see if it works.

Uroplatus phantasticus mating Video by Michael DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! - MySpace Video

won't embed.

 

[zenonleo]

Satanic Panic my male Uroplatus Phantasticus is doing the same way . The whole tail i waving when the lights turned off when he is hunting or when he is near the female

 

[postskunk]

that's Extremely cool. when I was 12 I had 1.1 Uroplatus ebenaui among many other reptiles, at that age I thought that I would just by them put them in the same take and eventually babies would be running around, obviously it didn't happen. My parents got rid of my remaining reptiles when I went to college but now at 25 I'm getting back into it. Ive had a few really cool turtles for about a year now and yesterday i picked up a pair of Phantasticus at the Hamburg PA show. I can't wait too see my new little lady shake her tail feather.

 

[jadrig]

Yeah, that seems more of a 'Threatening' posture than the 'tail waving' where they wave their entire tail back and forth...

That tail waving looked like what all reptiles do, especially snakes, when the are being threatened...

 

[miguel camacho!]

I witnessed that in phantasticus more when feeding than anything else. That sure is a tiny wiggle if it was intended to be threatening.

 

[Jody Ettema]

Interesting thing. So far I have seen this with lineatus (complete tail, waving above), shaking tail from at the tip from ebenauis, guentheri, henkeli and phantasticus. I haven't seen this with sikorae or s. sameiti. Each one of them wave while hunting