Bearded Dragon Natural History Illustrations: Not Elementary's Nemesis

Summary: Doug's bearded dragon in Elementary episode Enough Nemesis To Go Around Oct. 30, 2014, matches central-inland bearded dragon natural history illustrations.

An unidentified species of bearded dragon (Pogona spp.) appears in Enough Nemesis To Go Around, season 3 episode 1 of CBS Television Studio's Elementary series, not as a clue but as a romance starter for Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and her neighbor's brother, Andrew Mittal (Raza Jaffrey); bearded dragon in school science lab, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, 12:08: Ssfadia, CC BY 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Bearded dragons appear light-colored in darkness and appreciate hotter habitats in bearded dragon natural history illustrations and in the Columbia Broadcasting System series episode Enough Nemesis To Go Around Oct. 30, 2014.

Director John Polson, writers Robert Doherty, Craig Sweeny and Jeffrey Paul King bring Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), Andrew Mittal (Raza Jaffrey) and a bearded dragon together. Joan catches Andrew's brother Doug's dragon in the utility room across from 6D and alongside 6A because "the pipes are warm and reptiles like warm places." Scientists describe central-inland, eastern, Kimberley, northwest, nullarbor, Rankin's black-soil dumpy dwarf, western and western dwarf bearded dragons, with the first- and sixth-designated dominating among captive-bred pets.

Doug perhaps elected a central-inland bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps (bearded [throat] striped head), explicated by Christoph Gustav Ernst Ahl (Sep. 1, 1898-Feb. 14, 1945) in 1927.

Up to nine clutches of up to 24 oblong, 0.91- to 1.14-inch (23- to 29-millimeter) by 0.67- to 0.71-inch (17- to 18-millimeter) eggs fit into burrows.

White eggs, glowingly soft pink from growing embryonic blood vessels, when sunlit, get 50 to 70 days at 84 degrees Fahrenheit (28.88 degrees Celsius) to incubate. Four-inch- (10.16-centimeter-) long, 0.07- to 0.11-ounce (2- to 3-gram) central-inland bearded dragons have two to three days to hatch, after incubation halts, between October and June. Itineraries include inclining on sunlit branches and rocks, ingesting insects and inhabiting burrows within three days and initiating breeding as 12-inch- (30.48-centimeter-) long one- to two-year-olds.

Central-inland bearded dragon natural history illustrations juggle broad, flat, fleshy tongues, broad, triangular heads, scale-fringed flanks, scale-fringed, size-shifting neck pouches and short tails with scaly bases.

Adult females and males know narrow versus wide heads and tail bases, small versus large femoral (thigh) pores and submissive arm-waving versus dominant beard-displaying, mouth-opening behaviors.

Adults like daily humidity at 30 to 40 percent and yearly rainfall at 23.62 to 62.99 inches (600 to 1,600 millimeters) up to 984.25-foot (300-meter) altitudes. They maintain body temperatures at 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) and manage ambient temperatures between 53.6 and 95-plus degrees Fahrenheit (12 and 35-plus degrees Celsius). They need flowers, fruits, invertebrates, leaves and small vertebrates in arid scrublands, dry open woodlands and rocky deserts with shaded retreats, sunny perches and underground burrows.

Central-inland bearded dragon natural history illustrations offer, on reduced scales, brown, orange, red, white or yellow, 6.5- to 12-inch (16.51- to 30.48-centimeter) bodies with same-length tails.

Adults peak at 10- to 18-ounce (283.49- to 510.29-gram) weights and possess adhesive-tipped tongues, depth-poor, full-colored vision, ear-holes, photosensitive organs, smell-detecting, taste-sensing palates and vibration-sensitive undersides.

Central-inland bearded dragons queue up hissing fearfully and, as females, bowing, limb-waving and head-bobbing submissively and head-bobbing stressfully and, as males, beard-blackening, beard-inflating and head-bobbing aggressively. They reveal sociable behaviors around productive feeding sites and secure basking sites on bush, shrub, tree and vine branches, flat rocks, hollow logs and sand dunes. They survive healthy, inactive winter torpor at 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit (23.88 to 26.66 degrees Celsius) daily and 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15.55 degrees Celsius) nightly.

Bearded dragon natural history illustrations travel where their owners take them whereas Doug's bearded dragon treks back and forth between dark, hot pipes and sunny windows.

A bearded dragon, lost by Andrew Mittal (Raza Jaffrey) and found in a utility closet by Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), opens the door to romance in Watson's life in Enough Nemesis To Go Around (Elementary tv series season 3 episode 1): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Oct. 30, 2014

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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An unidentified species of bearded dragon (Pogona spp.) appears in Enough Nemesis To Go Around, season 3 episode 1 of CBS Television Studio's Elementary series, not as a clue but as a romance starter for Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and her neighbor's brother, Andrew Mittal (Raza Jaffrey); bearded dragon in school science lab, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, 12:08: Ssfadia, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bearded_Dragon_Lizard.jpg

A bearded dragon, lost by Andrew Mittal (Raza Jaffrey) and found in a utility closet by Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), opens the door to romance in Watson's life in Enough Nemesis To Go Around (Elementary tv series season 3 episode 1): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Oct. 30, 2014, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/378768762248241/

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