can blue tongue skinks follow voice command??

[curtbone123]

hi everyone i would like to know if blue tongue skinks can come to you if you call there name or do something to get there attention other than having food in your hand

[juliec1]

mine dont come, but they perk up when i say there names, just might be because im so loud...

[curtbone123]

mine dont come, but they perk up when i say there names, just might be because im so loud...

yea i dont know either i wish someone would come in and shine a little about this topic

[Linnea]

click training can supposedly work very well with skinks as they are very fast learners (well, most of them).

however, as lizards do not communicate with words as much as body language and smells, to tell a voice and word apart will most likely be hard (some will say impossible, i leave the decision open). this means they might not respond to names but actually to a voice,smell or hand waving language that often means food, or in the case of click training, the clicking sound.

so it is still the thought of food that motivated them but it works great and makes them happy. trust is also important to build, a more trusting skink might be more inclined to come when food is announced.

they have very good hearing, sight, smell and very good sense of ground movement also. keen senses in all ways. to find ways to make use of this will surely make them very happy (in moderate amounts).

[Richard.C]

u can gwr there attention with sound,alot of mine just come when they see me so if i called them it would give the ellusion id called them over,others come to my hand if i drop it low enough,thinking i might have food

[curtbone123]

Thanks!!! Now i understand more but is it harder to teach a adult to come to you than starting from a baby?

[Scotts1au]

They certainly respond to stimulation and seem to learn behaviours such as learning that I feed them when I open the door. I think the jury is out as to whether they could respond to a command etc. Designing an experiment to take out - associations wtih actions/circumstances would be very difficult.

[Laurenk]

Well, Cocoa's nickname is Squinky and whenever my dad or I say it she comes to the front of her cage.

[Spindown]

I'm going to probably try experimenting with clicker training this summer...I mean, if people can train fish, chickens and cockroaches...

I'm not sure if they would do voice commands, but I bet some kind of cues would work.