Strange Creature's Tribute to Tegus - Dice, Coloring, Scavenger Hunt!

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7. Tegus are smart, opportunistic, and eat anything that fits in their mouths– the perfect candidate for an invasive species. Invasive populations have been found in which three US states? Answers with more than three states will not be counted as correct!

To answer this question, go to the google form here and fill it out. You don't need to be logged in or give me an email address, but you do need to put your Matope user name in there. In 24 hours, this question will close, the answer will be announced, and the next question will be posted! This year there are 10 questions, so that's 10 chances to earn points for the final raffle and a shot at the first pick of the tegu kiokotes! And remember, you only get points if you submit an answer before the question closes!

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7.Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Note that while North Carolina has preemptively banned them, there have been no invasive populations spotted there!

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8. A lot of people think that tegus are monitors or iguanas, but there are a lot of differences between them– they’re not closely related at all. One key difference is in their anatomy. Tegus are missing a structure that many lizards have, including iguanas, monitors, and bearded dragons. Even a non-lizard reptile very famously has it! But tegus don’t. What is it? (Hint: Even though it’s a brain structure, evidence of this structure is visible on the outside of the skull.) (Also there are a handful of answers I'm accepting that describe this anatomical feature.)

To answer this question, go to the google form here and fill it out. You don't need to be logged in or give me an email address, but you do need to put your Matope user name in there. In 24 hours, this question will close, the answer will be announced, and the next question will be posted! This year there are 10 questions, so that's 10 chances to earn points for the final raffle and a shot at the first pick of the tegu kiokotes! And remember, you only get points if you submit an answer before the question closes!

[HuniPi]

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8. A lot of people think that tegus are monitors or iguanas, but there are a lot of differences between them– they’re not closely related at all. One key difference is in their anatomy. Tegus are missing a structure that many lizards have, including iguanas, monitors, and bearded dragons. Even one non-lizard reptile has it! But tegus don’t. What is it? (Hint: Even though it’s a brain structure, evidence of this structure is visible on the outside of the skull.)

It’s the parietal eye/pineal eye/third eye! They do have the pineal gland but they don’t have the arrangement of light-sensitve cells that has an opening in the skull! Want to see for yourself? Compare this tegu skull and this iguana skull!


No pineal opening!

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9. Tegus have maintained a cinematic presence ever since the 1950s when they were used as monsters in B-movies, usually while wearing bad dinosaur costumes. What TV show did Scara start watching entirely because there was a tegu in the first episode, only for that tegu to never appear again?

To answer this question, go to the google form here and fill it out. You don't need to be logged in or give me an email address, but you do need to put your Matope user name in there. In 24 hours, this question will close, the answer will be announced, and the next question will be posted! This year there are 10 questions, so that's 10 chances to earn points for the final raffle and a shot at the first pick of the tegu kiokotes! And remember, you only get points if you submit an answer before the question closes!

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9. Tegus have maintained a cinematic presence ever since the 1950s when they were used as monsters in B-movies, usually while wearing bad dinosaur costumes. What TV show did Scara start watching entirely because there was a tegu in the first episode, only for that tegu to never appear again?

It was Snowpiercer! Daveed Diggs who?

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10. Our very last question! And it's movie trivia again! This movie uses an Argentine black and white tegu to incorrectly establish a scene in the Bolivian desert, despite tegus not living anywhere near that part of Bolivia... or the Atacama Desert where they filmed it. What movie is this?

To answer this question, go to the google form here and fill it out. You don't need to be logged in or give me an email address, but you do need to put your Matope user name in there. In 24 hours, this question will close, the answer will be announced, and the next question will be posted! This year there are 10 questions, so that's 10 chances to earn points for the final raffle and a shot at the first pick of the tegu kiokotes! And remember, you only get points if you submit an answer before the question closes!

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WHO WANTS MORE TICKETS?


Design a holiday sweater for this tegu! Two tickets will be yours. Open until the end of the event.

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10. Our very last question! And it's movie trivia again! This movie uses an Argentine black and white tegu to incorrectly establish a scene in the Bolivian desert, despite tegus not living anywhere near that part of Bolivia... or the Atacama Desert where they filmed it. What movie is this?


It was Quantum of Solace! It was not a good movie, and they didn't even use the right lizard! Tegus are not found in the Atacama Desert, it's too dry for them!

That's it for trivia, stand by for winners!

[Nashawryn]

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If you'd like to see how you did compared to others, the spreadsheet with answers and time codes is here, but the ticket breakdown goes like this:

• Participated at all: 1 ticket (Astoria, Dizzy_Kat, Lirilei, lolternative, Nashawryn, Tara de Draiocht, Tiarana, Vashtya, wander, wyrm)
• Answered 4+ questions: 2 tickets (Amitotic, Anhelisk, Appeal, doomsayer, Kalahari, lilacfishie, LOLLI qAq, lutz, Ruriska, Zuki)
• Answered all questions: 3 tickets (rexcorvus)
• Answered all questions right: 4 tickets (Subducting)
• Runner up: 5 tickets (Moonstone Dazzle)

This year's winner, with 14 points, was Rexcorvus!

Pick your prize! Any of the tegu kios (or familiars if your heart is set on one of those)

But wait... what's that noise?

IT'S IGUANAS. Yes, the festival of the invasive species has been invaded by another invasive species! And oh no they seem to be hitting people completely at random. Seems like they're going to be going home with trivia participants right now...

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Trivia participants, equal chance
1 Amitotic
2 Anhelisk
3 Appeal
4 Astoria
5 Dizzy_Kat
6 doomsayer
7 Kalahari
8 lilacfishie
9 Lirilei
10 LOLLI qAq
11 lolternative
12 lutz
13 Moonstone Dazzle
14 Nashawryn
15 Rexcorvus
16 Ruriska
17 Subducting
18 Tara de Draiocht
19 Tiarana
20 Vashtya
21 wander
22 wyrm
23 Zuki

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Trivia participants weighted by points
1 Amitotic
2 Amitotic
3 Anhelisk
4 Anhelisk
5 Appeal
6 Appeal
7 Astoria
8 Dizzy_Kat
9 doomsayer
10 doomsayer
11 Kalahari
12 Kalahari
13 lilacfishie
14 lilacfishie
15 Lirilei
16 LOLLI qAq
17 LOLLI qAq
18 lolternative
19 lutz
20 lutz
21 Moonstone Dazzle
22 Moonstone Dazzle
23 Moonstone Dazzle
24 Moonstone Dazzle
25 Moonstone Dazzle
26 Nashawryn
27 Rexcorvus
28 Rexcorvus
29 Rexcorvus
30 Ruriska
31 Ruriska
32 Subducting
33 Subducting
34 Subducting
35 Subducting
36 Tara de Draiocht
37 Tiarana
38 Vashtya
39 wander
40 wyrm
41 Zuki
42 Zuki

[rexcorvus]

catch me crying in the club but I would love the red headed caiman lizard ;;

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THE IGUANA GODS HAVE SMILED UPON YOU... choose your iguana! Note that this does NOT impact your ability to win a prize from the other familiar prize pool or a kiokote, this is separate!

First pick

Second pick, give me 2 prefs

Third pick, give me 3 prefs

The iguanas available for love and adoption are as follows:

Green | Black | Orange


Gold | Paleo Noble | Paleo Celery


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