Love Blue-Tongue Lizard style

- boardwalk near bird hides Swan Lake Phillip Island

The bored looking one in the middle was the female, the other two males fighting over her, their method of courtship, biting her.

The one about to grab her leg had been making his moves and had his mouth holding a large chunk of her neck until the guy in back decided he'd join in. Eventually the two males were fighting each other (or indulging in greco-roman wrestling) and the female wandered off leaving them to it.

I don't blame her.

[Janna E.]

I'm so glad human courtship is different - lol! Great capture of this interesting ritual!

[Jason Daniels]

Great action! Greco-Roman! Whoo oooh!

[Jennifer C]

oh my that poor young lady! how funny

[Allison Maltese]

Wow, what a great interesting shot.

[cglist]

I don't blame her either - terrific (and a little creepy... ) capture!

[Alan Warren]

"Sexy Skink Summer"
"Randy Reptilian Rooters"
"Lizard Pron" or "Lizard Lovin' "
"Happily Humping Herpetologists"
"Menage et Triceratops"

Need I continue? ;o)

[trude]

This is taking the term 'love bite' a little too literal. Poor girl!!! great capture though!!

[Tashie]

Cool shot, interesting situation, glad she left them to it.

[Lotus Flower]

Hahaha, I'm not so sure human courtship is all that different! Good for her leaving the boys to their shenanigans, and great job capturing such an interesting moment. At first I couldn't tell how many lizards there were--- it almost reminds me of an M.C. Escher drawing.

[Attila Shepard]

Great photo Megan, I too was a little confused as to how many lizards were involved. Love the inclusion of the tree with DOF in the right hand fringe of the photo.
@lotus1922 I was going to say the same thing.

[BeckyS]

Lizard love hurts! Nice shot.

[Dawn Wilson]

great shot

[Mike Warren]

Cool capture. They seem a little pushy with her :-)

[Kass]

What a neat capture - no wonder she wondered off being bit like that! ;-)

[Larry B]

If this is lizard love can you imagine what lizard hate is!! Very nice shot!

[Janna Dawn Goldrup]

Good call, lady lizard.

[Shirley]

interesting shot & great capture......hard to figure out at first!

[Anne ❀]

wow, such an interesting pic and story! very cool pic!!!!

[Juanita]

Fascinating.......and a great capture :)

[Toni :)]

lol, great find and no I don't blame her either :)

[Bugik]

This is interesting! Great capture!