Tangible Media – DMDN312

Useful Info

Posted in Project One by Neo BA on August 3, 2009

I got some useful info from today’s reading(The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals) They are all about emotions of lizard. I may consider them for a direction when I design my project.

Page: 100

The males of some lizards, when fighting together during their courtship, expand their throat pouches or frills, and erect their dorsal crests.16 But Dr. Günther does not believe that they can erect their separate spines or scales.

Page: 105

Chameleons and some other lizards inflate themselves when angry.”

Page: 109

Various animals, including some lizards, either curl or vibrate their tails when excited.

Page: 127

We have already seen that some kinds of lizards and various snakes, when excited, rapidly vibrate the tips of their tails. It would appear as if, under strong excitement, there existed an uncontrollable desire for movement of some kind, owing to nerve-force being freely liberated from the excited sensorium; and that as the tail is left free, and as its movement does not disturb the general position of the body, it is curled or lashed about.

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