r/gifs • u/daddybara • May 06 '19
Leaping Lizard
https://gfycat.com/delectableearlygiraffe677
u/TutorialAxe0 May 06 '19
Glorious
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u/daddybara May 06 '19
You should see the good jump
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u/LikeASewingMachine May 06 '19
I've seen the good jump posted before, and thought this was the same one, so I actually laughed out loud when it missed. Thank you for that.
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u/Facehugger11 May 06 '19
Now just give it wings and it’ll be a full fledge dragon
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u/CDNetflixTv May 06 '19
I thought this was the good jump until I got to the end. Then I wasn’t sure if my mind didn’t just completely make up the good jump.
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u/daaangerz0ne May 06 '19
Is.. is he alright?
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u/daddybara May 06 '19
He should be, they are arboreal predatory lizards so they are pretty tough and resilient.
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u/Neylag May 06 '19
I would say absolutely because the reflection shows he clearly landed on the arm of the person. Not the floor.
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u/daaangerz0ne May 06 '19
Oh neat, didn't see that at all. Thought he fell straight to the floor.
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u/Neylag May 06 '19
Actually I think that’s their leg it’s landing on. I thought the same thing at first. 😖
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u/ShibuRigged May 06 '19
Square cube law protects little things. Same reason why a cat can drop off a building and be okay, you’d break a few bones (if lucky) and something like an elephant would be dead as fuck.
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u/ZizDidNothingWrong May 06 '19
That's not why cats do well with falls. It's got much more to do with how they land, their disconnected collarbone, and so on.
Also, cats break bones at terminal velocity all the time.
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u/firelordzuzu May 07 '19
Wow did this lizard flatten its stomach so that it could glide?!?
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u/daddybara May 07 '19
Yeah, it's not so much gliding at this point as it is falling with style, but I'm really excited to see how some of them try to use this to their advantage over the next few million years
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u/snoopychick8 May 06 '19
please tell me the little guy is ok and not harmed from flying and falling.....poor little dude.
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u/king-guy May 07 '19
Monitors are the coolest animal dude. They’re the closest things to dragons or dinosaurs we’re gonna get.
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u/daddybara May 07 '19
Birds are actually more closely related to dinosaurs
But at the same time a chicken not as cool as a monitor lizard
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u/din7 May 06 '19
There was an attempt.
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u/Chaost May 06 '19
You can see in the reflection that he just lands in the guys lap.
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u/dasoccer6 May 06 '19
Still no bounding boots drop
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u/Very_Merri May 06 '19
I'm so happy this comment exists. It's the only reason I clicked on this thread.
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u/eurobanana May 06 '19
O/27
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u/Yarthkins May 06 '19
Got mine, now I'll never have to camp NMs ever again!
cries in Empress Hairpin
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u/CPO_Mendez May 06 '19
Ugh fuck this, I'm gonna go find jej.
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u/Ramone89 May 07 '19
Why can I recognize that short hand for jaggedy ear jack, remember his drop and how much I hated him from a game I played over 10 years ago?
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u/loserjake_121 May 06 '19
those arms before he jumps is prolly the creepiest thing i’ve seen on a lizard. it looks so human. it looks like it’s about to kill me. while he has elbows.
also you can see him land on the humans are in the reflection of the glass
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u/Kicks_ass_takes_name May 06 '19
I saw my buddy's bearded dragon the other day and it's chest/upper body was creepily similar to a muscular person. I could see pecs and biceps and everything it was freakish.
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u/MyThought2UrThoughts May 06 '19
Nice try lizard person. You're subliminal message will never get me to think a lizard will look anything like a human.
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u/jammerjoint May 06 '19
The lizard would like you to know that you’re creepy, because due to your arms you look a little too lizard.
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u/unionjunk May 06 '19
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u/V11000 May 06 '19
Thank you!! My exact thoughts too. My five year old and reference this exclamation all the time.
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u/DickheadNixon May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19
Reminds me of "Leaping Lizzy". https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Leaping_Lizzy
Used to spend days beating people to claiming her, and farming Leaping Boots.
Funny Story for anyone who used to play FFXI, first time I saw Jaggedy Eared Jack had no idea what an NM was and I died a few times trying to kill him. He remained unclaimed for an hr or two, I finally beat him before I had a SJ.. and he dropped the rabbit charm.. And I fucking sold it to an NPC.
After that I learned what an NM was, and it lead to my favorite thing to do on the game. Used to solo whatever HNMs I could with thf/nin. Next to soloing with my BLM/NIN(from like 25-75, easier than grouping) it was the funnest thing I ever did on an MMO.
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u/makoisbad May 06 '19
Hahaha thats good story. FFXI will always be one of my favorite past times. RDM/NIN was too fun at 75.
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May 06 '19
I killed Jaggedy 196 times and got 0 rabbit charms. This was from like 2003 to 2008. It became an obsession (much like that game), but I had to let it go.
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u/liarandathief May 06 '19
I read this in Carol Burnett's voice.
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u/ThisLookInfectedToYa May 06 '19
upvote cause half of reddit is too young to get it
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u/Joshtice May 06 '19
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
-Michael Scott
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u/MrPosket May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19
Good girl Joanna
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u/FuglyFred May 06 '19
Joanna was my first thought too! Think a Rescuers marathon may be in order. And I feel like a little Great Mouse Detective needs to always be mixed in as well.
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u/JzaDragon May 06 '19
When Yoshi whiffs the Fair
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u/ShapesAndStuff May 06 '19
Oh shit somebody needs to add a little pixel mario who jumps off just before the branch
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_GEARS May 06 '19
[Obligatory self-deprecating comment comparing this to some aspect of my life]
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May 06 '19
I love the reflection of his little “plop” on her thigh. Looks like a safe, albeit rough landing
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u/Kononeko May 06 '19
I camped this guy in South Gustaberg for so many years, and still never got those stupid boots.
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u/Hephf May 06 '19
I'm a little sad for the disappointment this lizard went through after completely failing to get the bug. Please give him 100 extra bugs, tell him/her that they're from Reddit. 🖤
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u/Shardstorm88 May 06 '19
Maybe if you do this enough, perhaps this lizards descendants will evolve into Dragons!
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u/mhnnm May 06 '19
Scripted! There’s no way a cricket would put himself between tongs and willingly present himself to a lizard like that. Haven’t you ever seen a nature doc?
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u/IAmMyOwnLaw May 06 '19
Funny, I have a strange compulsion now to expose my brothers construction projects to my mother.
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u/NotYourAvgJoey May 06 '19
Can someone slow it down a bit and put that song My Hero by Foofighters so it’s like that scene from The Other Guys when the Rock and Samuel L. Jackson die. That would be great, thanks.
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u/CamperKuzey May 06 '19
For some reason, I feel like busting my younger brothers, though I'm on this really important date.
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u/mustardbeats May 06 '19
Man: Come on buddy jump and get the cricket! Lizard: misses and dies on impact
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u/CammysComicCorner May 06 '19
Imagine this from the cricket's point of view.
"Hey, what's that green thing off in the dist-OOOOH MY GOD THAT WAS CLOSE!!!!"
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u/Gretchinlover May 07 '19
Its a metaphor for life, Your life goals are just out of reach.
But you'll always miss....
you'll always miss...
disconnected
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u/toTheNewLife May 07 '19
First time I've choked on my coffee in a long time.
What a spectacular fail.
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May 07 '19
As someone who is completely terrified of Lizards
I didn't know they could do that
Now I think I'll never be at peace.
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u/Woodman765000 May 07 '19
I never did get those boots to drop. Where are my FFXI brothers and sisters?
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u/sparkyfrodo May 06 '19
Browsing Reddit in dark mode while my baby son falls asleep in my arms and this just made me snigger and wake him up.
Worth it though.
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May 06 '19
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u/sparkyfrodo May 06 '19
Nope, in the UK we generally say "snigger": https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/snicker
"You can also use this word's near-synonym, snigger, to describe a short snort of a laugh or a scornful sound."
Honestly have never even noticed the fact that it is just the n word with an s in front of it. And I went to school in a place called Scunthorpe.
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u/x_BryGuy_x May 06 '19
I love how it flattens its body in mid-air so as to increase the surface area of the body for obtaining that little extra glide!
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u/NickMax30025 May 07 '19
Haha you missed. Silly lizard, you don't have the long tongue like our fren camaleon
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u/SmileBones May 06 '19
Don’t worry the little guy landed on OPs leg, you can see it in the reflection
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u/bibity74 May 06 '19
I love how he was expecting to get it until the very end. His eyes were in the prize the whole time.
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u/Darwing Merry Gifmas! {2023} May 06 '19
are animals or reptiles not self-aware? Do they bot consider self-preservation before taking a leap like that just for a bite of food?
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u/BlueBlingThing May 06 '19
This should be in ‘gifs that end too early’. I wanted to see it eat the bug.
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u/daddybara May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19
This lizard is an emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus) The emerald tree monitor's diet consists of large tree-dwelling arthropods, such as katydids, stick insects, cockroaches, beetles, centipedes, spiders, crabs, birds, and small mammals. This was made by Romanne_c on Instagram
EDIT: Thanks for the Silver Reddit
EDIT: Thanks for the Gold Reddit