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Life At Gobabeb As a Sand Diving Lizard Meroles Anchietae
08:00 Huh? What is that? I am starting to feel a bit warm…sun must be out time to get up and get the day started. This sand is great; I can swim around in it during the hot hours of the day and cool hours of the night; when it is just the right temperature, I can run around on top of it and eat.
Pop Okay no predators around, time for breakfast. Run run run run run, Ooh seed! Ooh termite! Ooh ant! Oops snake! Time to hide, zip back under the sand, he will never find me here.
10:00 After a few more hours of running around. Yeouch this sand is getting hot, time to bust out some moves. I think I will go with the thermal dance, and left foot right foot left foot right foot, balance on the tail. Aah that feels better nothing quite like the Thermal Dance, I did use to like the Safety Dance but that went out in the 80s. Nope, this is too hot, back under the sand. Zip, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim. Ahh much better….zzzzzzzzzzz.
17:00 Hmmm, this feels nicer, time to go back out for dinner.
18:50 Well, that was a nice dinner, I think I will go back down for the night.
19:00 Huh? Wuzaat? Ahhh, fingers, the sand is moving! Shit, it must be Thomas again, every week he come out here and digs be up, hold me in his salty sweaty palms nearly suffocating me while a bunch of other hairless apes gawk on in amusement. I am getting damn sick of this; I don't really care how much people learn from seeing me. I hate this, at least he lets me go when he is done, I just wish I were getting something out of the deal. Time to run.
19:01 Nooo, he got me! If I had a larger mouth I would so bite his stupid fingers off.
19:01:30 What is this, a bucket!?! No. No way. This is in no way part of the deal, you catch me and let the kids look at me and then you let me go and I dive under the sand while the other fools try to take a picture of me. Why the hell are you putting me in a bucket this time?
19:02 Merl? Al? What are you guys doing in here; this doesn't look good.
20:00 What? Light? Are we being released…yay. Run for it guys, quick before he changes his mind.
20:00:30 Wait! What is this…a terrarium? What? Does anyone else smell that? It smells like…like…sidewinder! Ahhh! Run! Can't dive the sand it too hard
20:01:00 Nooo, he got Merl!
20:05:00 Ahhh, not Al!
20:10:00 I don't think it sees me Let me just look and see where it is, they are so damn hard to see when they are under the sand. Did those two grains of sand just blink? Naaaahhh couldn't have bee………..
Life At Gobabeb As a Sidewinding Adder Bitis Peringueyi
08:00 Brrrr. Too cold, don't want to move, I will just wait here until this evening when it will be much nicer to go have some lizards.
19:00 Ahhh time for dinner. S S S S It is so nice in the evening, the sun is down, the juicy geckos are out, and life is good.
20:00 Wait, I hear voices, it is probably Thomas with another one of his damn groups, they almost stepped on me last time. I had better just wait here, they usually don't walk here. Damn, someone has a light, maybe they won't see me.
"Hey Thomas is this a snake?"
Damn it, whoever brought that light is gonna get bit. No! Here come Thomas and he has those damn buckets with him. He already caught me two seeks ago why does he have to do it again…can't you just leave me alone? Come on we can talk about this. Hiss Hiss, see you don't want to catch me I hiss and I am scary, I can try and bite you too so just back off.
20:02 Damn the bucket is on top of me. Scoop Oh, yep, he caught me again. Why does this always happen? Damn thing never changes; every time, I get caught, end up in a terrarium for a week, fed a few lizards and let go. Well come to think of it, it isn't really always a bad thing…I mean he feeds me more lizards than I can normally catch out here so…you know this is a pretty good deal. This doesn't mean I'm not going to hiss and generally be unpleasant to this moron.
Three days later
18:00 Huh, another white bucket in his hand? Did he catch another poor snake? No, wait this is lunch! Hey alright, I was getting a bit hungry. Three, oh wow, is this Christmas?
20:00 Hey, would you guys just stop running around so I can eat you?
20:01 Munch munch The ol' buried under the sand trick gets 'em every time.
20:05 Munch munch A bit small but there is a third one somewhere…time for the ol' under the sand trick.
20:09 Oh wow this works great, this fool is nearly standing on my head
20:10 Burp! Okay I am gonna rest for a while, all this eating had me all tuckered out.
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