Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It sleeps a lot, but when it’s awake, it’s quite a handful.

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.

Ornithophobe is terrified of birds. He was minding his own business one day, napping under a bush, when a bird building its nest spotted a tuft of his fur sticking out. Others in its flock, also nesting, saw the bird's prize and came for the soft fur as well. The poor hatchling awoke in pain from the flock of birds all pulling at his fur. To this day, he has a bare spot on his back left flank and avoids birds as much as possible.