Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its belly is bright red and it is most active in the evening.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Bug Eye lost one of his eyes in a tussle with a vicious barramundi.  His remaining eye, perhaps in compensation, has grown to twice its original size.  The massive, blood-red eye is of great use to Bug Eye, but it scares the other hatchlings away and prevents Bug Eye from ever making any friends.